Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Hidden Among Us


At the heart of much speculative fiction (and fiction in general) is a question. What if? On Tuesdays I like to throw one out there and see what you make of it. Do with it as you please. If a for-instance is not specified, feel free to interpret that instance as you wish. And if you find this becomes a novel-length answer, I'd appreciate a thank you in the acknowledgements. ðŸ˜‰

One day I sat down to write a bunch of "what if?" questions to get a bit ahead on the blog. A theme emerged...

What if extra terrestrials were to reveal themselves to us tomorrow? What if they revealed they'd been living among us for thousands of years? (In other words, the opposite of last week's question.)
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  1. bettyNovember 12, 2019 at 8:02 AM

    I think I would ask them why they chose to reveal themselves now instead of years before. Did they have a new agenda now? If so, then I would be a bit worried until they would let me know they did not intend to do any harm.

    betty

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  2. Susan KaneNovember 12, 2019 at 10:30 AM

    Like Betty, I would ask the same questions.

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  3. songbird's crazy worldNovember 12, 2019 at 11:24 AM

    I'd ask why they are here and what do they want from us.

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  4. BirgitNovember 12, 2019 at 11:48 AM

    We must have been an interesting case study to be here for that long. I wonder how many are Walmart greeters

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  5. J E OneilNovember 12, 2019 at 12:01 PM

    I would ask why they would ever want to come here.

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  6. Magical Mystical MimiNovember 12, 2019 at 1:47 PM

    I would ask them the significance of this time period. They've been here for thousands of years... Maybe we finally passed some mystical test or failed one miserably...

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  7. peppylady (Dora)November 12, 2019 at 2:40 PM

    I hope to have conversation with them.
    Coffee is on

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  8. AlanaNovember 12, 2019 at 3:19 PM

    I would be most interested in knowing "why now"? And I would make sure they hadn't written any cookbooks.

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    1. Liz A.November 12, 2019 at 4:59 PM

      At this point, I think we would have noticed if they'd been partaking of... Okay, I can't finish that sentence.

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  9. mshatchNovember 12, 2019 at 5:45 PM

    I wouldn't be terribly surprised, though of course I'd want proof, and then the why did they come and stay and what now? Oh, and are they wearing skin suits or do they look just like us?

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  10. Pradeep NairNovember 14, 2019 at 11:19 PM

    I would ask them, what they learnt about us all the while they were incognito.

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