Conjuring Fate

Gone. Everything. In one fell swoop.

Maybe it didn't happen quite that fast, but it sure seemed like it.

I remember everything like it was yesterday. Or, more accurately, I couldn't forget even if I tried. And I have, tried that is. With every fiber of my being. But the damned tape reel has an automatic replay button, and it blasts through my brain over and over again.

I was just nineteen then. One very long year ago. I'd finished my first year at university and was on vacation between semest...