The Earliest Memory Exercise: Short Story

by Andrew Pyper

When participants in a group-therapy session are asked to describe their first memories, long-buried demons and emotions flood out. It’s a valuable exercise for everyone except the story’s narrator.

The thirteen stories in Andrew Pyper’s intense and artful short-story collection, Kiss Me, deal with the issues, sensibilities and intangible estrangements of contemporary youth. But there are no neat and tidy coming-of-age passages these are narratives about reaching out—and often failing to touch—one another in a time of both privilege and fracture.

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16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 20, 2012

About the author

Andrew Pyper was a Canadian author. He published over ten fictional books, including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers Award, and Lost Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year.

Pyper also published under the name of Mason Coile.