- Working title
- The Password Reset
- Situation
- The narrator tries to recover access to an old account and is asked security questions they no longer remember choosing.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- The old answers belong to a version of them that had different favourites, different routines and less damage.
- Concrete detail
- The password box refuses the name of a first pet three times.
- Emotional pressure
- A minor login problem becomes a small argument with memory.
- Suggested first sentence
- The website asked for my favourite place, and I immediately distrusted the younger idiot who had answered it.