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Homesick

Homesick

” Wow! where did you get this one from?”

“Got it off the SETI project.”

“Wo! The one where they are trying to find extraterrestrial intelligence?”

“Yep.”

“Hey! Wait a minute…this looks familiar…isnt this…”

“(sighs) Yeah…It is. But how does that make a difference now?”

“Er…I don’t know…shouldn’t it? I mean…don’t you feel anything anymore?”

“You know what? I don’t know! I mean how would it matter now?”

“I don’t know…It should have…it does to me atleast!”

“Yeah whatever!”, he said, firing up the engines now. “We anyways have a long way to go…next I know, you would be cribbing about this place too! What does the picture do to you anyways?”

He looked deeply into the picture for a while and placed in in front of the dash. As they strapped in and blasted off, he finally said,

“It makes me feel homesick…”

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August 23, 2010 Post Under Flash Fiction - Read More
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0300 HRS – Office of Project Vela, SETI – Earth

‘Professor, the deciphering is complete’

‘What does it say?’

‘It’s the same message that we sent them two weeks ago’

‘Impossible, it took you ten hours to decipher a reflection’

‘Professor, I guess it’s a re-transmission’

Professor takes a good look at the message ‘Bullshit, not a single glitch, this is reflection for sure’

‘So what do we do now Professor?’

‘PIA13122 is a dead planet; it doesn’t have any intelligence, stop the transmissions’

‘But, Sir could it be the case of uh…parallel …’

‘Shut up John and just do as I say’

‘Okay Professor’


0300 HRS – Office of Project Via Lactea, SETI – PIA13122

‘Professor, the deciphering is complete’

‘What does it say?’

‘It’s the same message that we sent them two weeks ago’

‘Impossible, it took you ten hours to decipher a reflection’

‘Professor, I guess it’s a re-transmission’

Professor takes a good look at the message ‘Bullshit, not a single glitch, this is reflection for sure’

‘So what do we do now Professor?’

‘Earth is a dead planet; it doesn’t have any intelligence, stop the transmissions’

‘But, Sir could it be the case of uh…parallel …’

‘Shut up Goi and just do as I say’

‘Okay Professor’


August 22, 2010 Post Under Flash Fiction - Read More
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