Are you a person who remembers everything in just a second? Do you have a photographic memory? Or is remembering a problem? Some people live in the past, others only remember the last five minutes of their lives. Our memory is a strange phenomenon. You can’t see it, can’t touch it, but it is there, somewhere. One minute it hides in a corner of your mind, the next it pops up at inconvenient moments, like in the middle of the night.
image: Main Policy Institute
In psychology, memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved:
Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process.
Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time.
Finally the third process is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information.
The challenge for you:
Write a story about MEMORY in just six words. Let a photo or image inspire you to write a story. Or first write the story, and then make or search for a picture to go with it.
Here’s a Six Word Story by Ernest Hemingway.
Such an impact and unseen images in only six words…
Publish your Six Word Story on your own website/blog and paste the link to that post in a comment to this one here at Figments. I will include your contribution in this post, forming a list of stories.
Will you join me? Will you? Say you do 
And share the challenge news!
Have fun writing,
Marion
READ THE MEMORY STORIES OF:
- ThisCornerOfTheWoods – Six Word Story Challenge: Memory
- Marian Allen: I’m not guilty. It never happened.
- Figments of a DuTchess: 6WSC: Memory
- Hugmamma’s MIND, BODY and SOUL: six word story challenge: memory
- Indira’s Blog: Six Word Story Challenge: Memory
- Masadiso79’s Blog: Six Word Story Challenge: Memory
- Mormors klagemur: Six Word Story Challenge
- Crackerberries: Growing Older
- Sidd: Leaves me when needed the most!
- Peter Bouchier: Sea you
Who’s next? 
I will post a new Six Word Story Challenge every other week on Wednesday – so the next one on September 11. On alternating Wednesdays you can visit my dear Sister from overseas’ website Marian Allen for her story challenges. Doe je liever mee in het Nederlands, ga dan naar Verbeeld een Verhaal in Zes Woorden: Geheugen.
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Older stories:
130226 – Poverty
130313 – Spring
130327 – Writing
130410 – Light
130424 – Music
130515 – Transport
130529 – Pets
130612 – Regret
130616 – Inspiration
130703 – Commercials
130814 – Vacation
Figments of a DuTchess 