3059. Dossiers © Bruce Goodman 20 October 2024

I had been helping a group of inquisitive extra-terrestrials come to an understanding of Earth’s music. Our music was mumbo-jumbo to their ears. Of course, each of their hands has seven fingers so the development of their music has followed quite a different path. The nearest thing they have to our piano is an instrument they call a lyrostronium. Their music is as incomprehensible to me as ours is to them. Of course, I only have ten fingers! By way of thanks for the help I had given them they invited me to visit their planet. Don’t ask me how we got there but we did. I was amazed at… at EVERYTHING. They showed me a huge dossier on me! I had presumed they had collected information on me as a way of studying our music, but they said no. They have information on nearly everything that every human on Earth has done – every phone call, every Google search, everything written digitally... They bought it off China. Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story