The urge to create

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Thank you for your kind words. Running the story through Google Translate myself, I note that the story indeed remains intelligible for the most part. Bizarrely, "vergeetpoel" is translated as "coil". It means "forgetting pool".

The title of the contest is "What I want to forget most", but elsewhere they state it as "What is the value of memory and forgetting to you?" Most contestants (393 now that the contest has closed) either dredge up their worst memory or write a little essay on memory. The essays are okay, but all the bad memories depress and bewilder me. To put it bluntly: why would anyone care? This was my approach to the contest: nobody would be interested in my worst memory. Why would you be if you don't know me?

So I spun it into a little story, something very few people have done. Like I said, at least it stands out from the crowd.

Our memories make us into who we are. Good and bad alike.