Memento Mori
Mortality, postponed lives and compromised conscience in the early fiction of Davies Musau, with a continuing home for short stories.
Memento Mori is both an instruction to remember death and a useful pressure applied to these stories. The recovered four-page source opens with an immortal narrator who has lost the urgency of now, continues into the original Don Stavo typewriter story, and includes The Fixer. An Utter Waste of Time also places fiction alongside the poems and names Memento Mori in its introduction.
The website collection brings those recovered stories into conversation with Before I Go Bang!, The Walk, Flight 666 and the developing Thirteenth Folder. The narrators are not interchangeable with the author. Dark humour, unreliable voices, reversals and uncomfortable moral situations are part of the fiction, not claims of factual reporting.
The source manuscripts establish the existence of the writing. They do not establish an ISBN, a current retail edition or a new publication date. This collection is therefore an archival and editorial home, with each story carrying its own completion and revision status.