Forget Me Nearly

In a sleek, bureaucratic world of the twenty‑second century, a nameless man awakens in a public shelter with only a fragmented childhood level of memory. He is taken to Val Borgenese, a counselor who specializes in the unsettling phenomenon of “retroing”—a weapon that can strip a person of knowledge and even motor function, leaving them essentially reborn as a toddler. As Borgenese probes with gentle questions about pet names and forgotten fingerprints, the stranger struggles to piece together who he once was and why he was abandoned in the shelter.

The story unfolds as a quiet investigation into identity, memory, and a society that quietly disposes of people by erasing them. The dialogue‑driven narrative creates a claustrophobic atmosphere, where the sterile office becomes a crossroads between past and present selves. Listeners are drawn into a morally ambiguous future, wondering whether the man will ever reclaim his name—or if the very act of remembering could become his undoing.