The last time I died

By Joe Nelms

Subjects: Afghan War, 2001-, Veterans, Young women, Investigation, Death, Divorce, Women detectives, Crimes against, Murder, Claire Watkins (Fictitious character), Fiction, Recovered memory, American literature, Violence, Suicide, Identity (Psychology), Friendship

Description: In the wake of his divorce, Christian Franco's entire life is falling apart. Losing his career and friendships, he begins to hang out in bars and pick fights, finding that his only way to meditative solace is through being beaten. After he's dies in a bar brawl, he suddenly recovers a childhood memory long lost to him. When he's resuscitated, he begins an increasingly desperate quest to die and be revived in order to uncover more memories and find out who he truly is.