This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, to write a 150-word piece, inspired by the given locale. This time we are in Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Hope you enjoy my stream-of-consciousness piece, on a ufologist, seeing where his logic takes him. All mistakes are my own. Thanks for the prompt and thanks for reading!
Miles and miles of nothing but scrub brush. Mel Oliver scratched his graying beard.
Why would they choose here?
“They” consumed his every waking thought. The conviction of their existence permeated his innermost sinews.
But logic and engineering told him, that such advanced creatures, capable of wonders—an interstellar fleet, for example—would not neglect to research their ultimate destination.
Surely, they had learned to google, long ago.
Maybe it was not the core civilization, who landed here, but a race of robots, cast off, for being too intrusive, too threatening, too self-aware.
Perhaps, it was these dangerous rejects, these criminals and deviants, that his fellow enthusiasts naively welcomed, much as the vacant lands of America and Australia once did.
Why else choose a wasteland? Unless, desperate and unfit for civilization, they now pounded away at any door, that might succumb.
The world would need to build a better wall.
For my own message of welcome, read Welcome!
Well played. Enjoyed this on a lot of levels!
Dear Andrea,
Delightful perspective and the questions are valid. With the mention of the wall, I nearly choked. 😉 Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Warning: One should never attempt to eat or drink during Friday Fictioneers!?. Glad it met with your approval.
I had fun with this prompt since we went to Roswell in April.
good twist there
Thanks J Hardy!
I’m sure someone is working hard on this question, somewhere. ?
This is an important question. Why aliens well advanced tecnologically, choose to land in desert?
I’m starting to realise that you have rather a subversive sense of humour…a bigger wall, huh? And the aliens will pay? I enjoyed your story, Andi!
I will take that as a compliment! Law school is all about finding parallels…