The one problem I&#x27;ve had with these &quot;construct a story&quot; mechanisms is that I have just as hard of a time remembering the specifics of the story as I do some of the things I&#x27;m trying _to_ remember.<p>In your example, &quot;the ISS crashed down into $city&quot; requires remembering the city name, and that&#x27;s just a few words in. By the time the novella gets to the 50th word, there are a <i></i>ton<i></i> of details one must remember, aside from the story itself that houses them (which in your case seems custom made for those words; I&#x27;d be surprised if that was your general purpose loci).<p>This problem is compounded by the system described on ArtOfMemory&#x27;s wiki (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mt.artofmemory.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Method_of_Loci" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mt.artofmemory.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Method_of_Loci</a>) where they use a fixed story but with interchangeable items in the rooms. I&#x27;m sure with enough reciting of that story, I could remember the corn and milk, but the <i>second</i> time I need that memory palace, only this time with different items, I&#x27;m screwed because the two stories will bleed together.<p>I recognize this comment might sound like I&#x27;m deriding the method, but I promise that&#x27;s not the case. I just want to know if someone else has the same &quot;stories don&#x27;t work for me&quot; and to know if there is a twist or alternate which makes them work for the kind of brain which isn&#x27;t helped by loci.