Happy Halloween this season.
Remember to practice safe Trick or Treating.
Many doors are not meant to be opened.
While others open on things you cannot imagine.
So dress well, play hard, and most of all…
Have fun.
Happy Halloween this season.
Remember to practice safe Trick or Treating.
Many doors are not meant to be opened.
While others open on things you cannot imagine.
So dress well, play hard, and most of all…
Have fun.
I have visited the ruins of the people who lived on our worlds before we did. There are not many left, but they can be found if you look hard enough. Our government is not the only one who has tried to erase them from history. It can be seen in all of the ruins. They did not die out in the distant past. They were destroyed. They were defeated. They were wiped out. They were erased from history. Who hated them enough to want to erase the very memory of their existence from the universe? And what can we do about it now?
I asked, “Wanna race?”
She snorted and said, “With what?”
I was feeling real proud when I waved at the new sports car.
She snorted at me. “Please. My two wheels have more speed than all four of yours combined. You’d be so far back, even the cops would refuse to give me a ticket for street racing!”
That’s when I got a little indignant. “Well, fine. If you’re too scared to race me, I’ll just find someone else.”
“Oh, I’ll race you,” she said with a wicked smile. “I’ll race you anytime and anywhere.”
The Shang attacked us without warning. That is what most people are taught in school. But it is not true. They did warn us. We simply did not take their warnings seriously. They were too polite. Too quiet. And too ridiculous to believe. Who would go to war over intelligent cats and dogs? But they were just a symptom. One bright example we have always had of how genetic engineering has made our worlds better. But the Shang saw all the horrible things we could do with that power. How we could twist nature to our ends. They believed we were a threat to the very nature of life in the galaxy. That is why they attacked us.
Few people know that the worlds we live on now were terraformed long ago. It is not taught in our schools. Our government hides the truth by bulldozing the evidence that anyone ever lived there before us. They have never been able to find everything, but they have kept most people and most news networks from noticing. And so few people know that we are living on worlds where other people lived long ago. Who were they? What did they look like? Were they humans like us? Or were they something else entirely that simply needed the same eco system we do?