Note: Below is a science fiction short story I wrote around 16 years ago. It’s entirely possible such a scenario could actually happen. Perhaps in reality, it already has! 😉
Enjoy the holiday weekend! 😎
“Alas, Your Borrowed Time Has Expired!”
A Science-Fiction Short Story
by @SocialClaude
April 27, 2004
I am one of those “extraterrestrials” human people are always speculating about. For your information, I am far from godliness, and do make mistakes! Please excuse if my English and utilization of language is of any confusion…
We are also not just from different star systems, as some of your “UFOlogists” have rightfully pointed out.
I am in fact from what you would consider a “parallel dimension.” It really does not matter, as we are all beings as part of the same “Super-Reality” which encompasses all…
I made a HUGE MISTAKE that you benefited from!
Reality as you perceive it, to borrow a human metaphor, is only a scant one maybe perhaps two layers of the onion of the aforementioned “Super-Reality.” What I am about to tell you is just a few more layers that may make you cry, as if you improperly diced an onion…
I have been in orbit monitoring your species for generations. During this short time for me, as I live far beyond the human lifespan, I have grown to love certain aspects of humanity, and the abundant biodiversity you all too shortsightedly take for granted…
In 1947, a group of my fellow beings purposefully crash landed with a conveyance, in what has come to be known as the “Roswell Incident.”
They were hoping to give your “super-powers” at least the appearance of a potential enemy, other than each other, a “common foe,” if you will.
By the way, my fellow beings’ spirits were not aboard the conveyance when it crashed. We had extracted their essence prior to departing on the mission which in your terminology was “set on auto-pilot.”
This mission was sanctioned by “The Group.” Suffice it to say, “The Group” is something akin to your United Nations, except ours works quite well indeed, and is not “window dressing,” to borrow another human vernacular, idiom or expression…
Your primitive and dangerous nuclear technology is not only a threat to your planet, but has an impact on the fabric of space-time and beyond…
Now the high-strangeness comes into play…
Back in 1963, there was a nuclear war that caused a global catastrophe. Your “Cuban Missile Crisis” actually led to an all-out thermonuclear exchange between the “super-powers.” Some super-misguided dipshits is more like it!
As this was developing, prior to the nuclear exchange, we had evacuated all of our anthropologists and observers. I was to remain in orbit and chronicle the events on what you would consider a video recorder, except this apparatus records thousands of scenes at once.
I was also to bear witness, as an empathic entity, as painful as that is for me! You can not even begin to imagine what a burden that is to carry!
After I had witnessed and worse yet felt the needless and senseless destruction of your planet, I begged “The Group” to give your species and biodiversity another chance. I gave this all my heart, as you would say. “The Group” repeatedly denied my request, as it violated one of the core principles of our charter…
I was assigned a new mission on another developing planet. En route to my station, I asked my conveyance to turn around and head back to Earth, but not in the same time-stream! Yes, my “ship” is a sentient and conscious entity.
Once we arrived back to Terra a month or so prior to the global catastrophe, I analyzed the “videos” and saw THE pivotal point where the “Cuban Missile Crisis” had escalated from a war of words to the lobbing of “nukes.”
In violation of principle, I intervened and prevented the disaster. My superiors were furious with me! I was stripped of rank and subjected to some other sanctions I wish not to get into.
It is now the year 2004, and your species is still very much in harm’s way! I created an alternate reality in order for you to do better! There will be NO third chance!
Alas, your borrowed time has expired!
I hope you enjoyed my story… 😎
Be well,
@SocialClaude
“It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.”
–Metrodorus of Chios
