“Well, you asked if the sun hurt
me, and it doesn’t. But I can’t go out in the sunlight — at
least, not where anyone can see.”
Dracula,
Chapter 9, p.189*
Tomorrow my best
friend CJ will be coming over. We'll probably be editing my book as
per usual which will be fun. We often have plenty of fun while doing
it believe it or not cracking jokes at my world and such. For example
he took one of my awesome sounding descriptions and rephrased it to
sound very silly as a joke. I quite enjoyed that. And my friend CJ
was an English major hence his want to become an editor(my book is
practice as well as the fact I gave him a nickel so I have legally
paid him to work on my book haha!) so when he analyzes my book it can
be quite humorous as he figures out my logic behind my word choice
isn't exactly what he expects. My book is very surreal but when he
asks me why I put particular things I sometimes answer “Because
it's cool?”. And after I responded with that several times we ran
across something and CJ asked me and I told him “You're not going
to like my answer.” He laughed. It was because it sounded cool.
Well also to
restore his sanity as an English major I also told him my word choice came from
establishing tone. I do it with all of my stories. Sillier words go
in sillier stories and more serious words go in more serious stories.
This goes with my book. In my book I've even tried to emulate the
tones of nostalgia in some flashbacks if I could. Not sure if I'm
good enough of a writer to do pull it off yet but there is no point
in me not trying.
Anyway, onto
the flash fiction!
The First News Broadcast of
Intelligent Life
Breaking news
everyone! Intelligent life has been discovered on another world! And you know I don't
joke during my radio broadcasts! The government was keeping it under wraps
until contact was peacefully completed but despite their initial
fears everything went over peacefully. Our government tells us that
their culture is much more peaceful than ours and accepted us with
open arms, even giving our ambassadors free food, board, and gifts. The aliens also gave us technology for free to help us with our
environmental problems, giving us plenty of technology to make us
more energy efficient. They even gave medical technology helping us
cure many medical diseases we thought impossible.
Their cultures
are vast and bountiful. They have music with thousands of instruments and they use
technology to create music in ways we could have never imagined
before. They are geniuses of the arts as well. They have mastered
forms and styles we haven't ever thought of, challenging the very way
we look at reality. Their fiction has genres we've never invented and
weave tales that stimulate every emotion and create worlds unknown.
And according
to our government these aliens call themselves “humans”.
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