Encounters Out There

“Richard, Richard, I think I found one!” Julia scavenged a device with a screen buried underneath the rubble.

She then played it—“Oh, it’s terrible and so grotesque!”

“I think I’m going to be sick to my stomach.” Richard watched it too.

“I know, Richard—all that violence, but we must—we must learn it again.”

“I don’t know, Julia, this goes against everything we’ve been ...”

“Exactly, Richard, our alien overlords conditioned us never to resist, but we must … we must learn to be human again.”

They both watched recordings of old-style television shows from ‘the before times.’