Category: Literature & Art

Journal Entry #312: A View from the Train Seat

October 18 There is something missing. The rice paddies roll past, each one as vacant as the last, each one a framed portrait of my train car. Cars sulk. Houses loom. Shops flicker. Not yet as signs of abandonment, but silently, as if no one was inside.  The only company

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What Alien Arrival Stories Tell Us About Humanity

It’s 1938. Folks are driving home when they decide to turn on their radios. It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s the night just before Halloween. They hear what sounds like a typical broadcast. However, over the course of this broadcast, hearts across the nation will pound as unsuspecting listeners tune into a story about a worldwide invasion stemming from the planet Mars. 

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