Scattered

by Sandra Madera

After surviving a traumatic event, Rebecca loses her memory of the night she was found wandering in the woods. When she returns home, she realizes that her life has changed forever and in order to regain normalcy, she needs to recover the memories she lost. Even if it costs her her life. (YA SHORT STORY)


Rebecca Ardsley was a witness to a traumatic event that she cannot remember. All she knows is she was found wandering in the woods in the early morning hours, suffering from shock. She hasn’t seen her friends and family in months. When she is released from a recovery facility, she finds it hard to adapt and return to the friends she has known her whole life. Feeling like a stranger in a foreign land, Rebecca realizes the only way to settle what happened is to release the memories that are trapped in her own mind. Even at risk of her own life.

Word Count: 14,087

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40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 23, 2013

About the author

Sandra Madera currently resides in New York and is a recent college grad, obtaining her bachelor's degree in science. However, her true passion has always been reading and writing. She has been writing short stories since she was a child. She recently published her first full-length YA novel entitled Restraint. For free YA short story downloads and for information on upcoming novels visit www.sandramadera.com and http://sandra-madera.blogspot.com.