"Memento Mori" is a short story written by Jonathan Nolan and published in the March 2001 edition of Esquire magazine.
[1] The name refers to memento mori, a symbolic or artistic expression of the Latin phrase meaning "remember that you [have to] die."
His wife was raped and killed while Earl suffered severe head injuries, resulting in his amnesia.
[2] He pitched the idea to his brother Christopher during a cross-country road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
[3] Christopher eventually made the feature film Memento, starring Guy Pearce, which was inspired by Jonathan's story, although radically different.