She struggled, then broke through the barrier of a dark memory.

The eyes were distant and filled with dark memories.

The sun was high overhead, and the dark memory of the night before was beginning to fade.

But for the candidate himself, those two weeks in 1988 remain a dark memory.

His darkest memory was of the night Joe had been taken from him.

But since my marriage such things were but a dark memory.

When he returns, I try to shake off the weight of dark memories.

The thought brought back dark memories and the sort of fear he hadn't known in many years.

A shadow seemed to pass behind the woman's eyes, but she blinked and shook her head as if willing dark memories away again.

That dark memory was why none of the other memories could ever turn light in Alvin's heart.