A1  SPACE  - ESTABLISHING 


B1  Dark skies salted with stars/galaxies– PANS DOWN to two GREEN ALIENS– ALIEN 1 is chomping ALIEN CHIPS. ALIEN 2 is in deep thought with tentacles crossed.

ALIEN 2 starts in a jolt–

ALIEN 2
Hey! You know what we haven’t done in a while?

ALIEN 1 doesn’t stop chomping

ALIEN 1
What?

ALIEN 2 SHAKES in excitement

ALIEN 2
CHECKED ON THE HUMANS!

ALIEN 1 SHAKES in excitement and spills some ALIEN CHIPS (float away)
ALIEN 2 pulls out GLOWING ORB from behind its back. GLOWING ORB illuminates both ALIENS.

2       EARTH - SUMMER - CANADA - DAY - BACKYARD 

CHYRON UP: 20 EARTH YEARS AGO

GIRL in backyard squatting facing away from camera. 

ALIEN 2 enthusiastic VOICE OVER

ALIEN 2 
Ooh! Is it planting something?

ALIEN 1 worried VOICE OVER
Ugh bet it’s bullying bugs…

ALIEN 2 VOICE OVER
Let’s hope we get a different view here… Oh! OH. MY…

ALIEN 2′s surprise turns into shock as the shot PUSHES IN AND AROUND TO GIRL’S FACE, illuminated by RED FLAME.

GIRL is wide-eyed and TRANSFIXED by RED FLAME. Quiet OPERATIC MUSIC starts to play as camera is on GIRL.

ALIEN 2 
Did we go too far back? I thought they were past finding fire by now.

ALIEN 1
Yeah it’s a thing– Humans figured out fire long ago, but each human has to kinda find it out again. Yknow, the fractalization of– 

ALIEN 2 interrupts
– So its first fire– Could it turn into a pyro?!

ALIEN 1 has found a NEW SNACK (APPLE). Mid-chomp, ALIEN 1′s voice lowers and becomes gravelly. ALIEN 1 REMEMBERS IN VIVID DISGUST TEEN USING GLASS TO BURN ANTS–

ALIEN 1
Maybe it already is.

CAMERA ON GIRLS’ FACE, SHOT OF SHOULDERS AND HEAD. GIRL is TRANSFIXED by RED FLAME. OPERA MUSIC from earlier continues playing a bit louder.

GIRL in monotoned voice TILTS HEAD while still TRANSFIXED on RED FLAME. What is burning is not revealed.

GIRL
How you burn is so interesting.

ALIEN 2 in voiceover squeals 

ALIEN 1 in voiceover
You do not have the stomachs for this–

GIRL widens her eyes and the RED FLAME gets more opaque. OPERA MUSIC getting louder. OPERA MUSIC crescendoes and peaks as GIRL speaks.

GIRL
And now,  Da svidania.

GIRL STANDS UP and RUNS out of frame. RED FLAME flickering in frame. Both ALIENS gasp. OPERA MUSIC AT ALL-TIME HIGH. GIRL reappears in frame with GARDEN HOSE sprinkling WATER on RED FLAME. LIGHT SMOKING (atmos). OPERA MUSIC lulls into the background.

ALIEN 1 in voiceover
Trying to wash the crime away… 

PARENTAL VOICE from off screen yells out.

PARENTAL VOICE
WHERE IS THE ADVIL AND TYLENOL!?

GIRL jumps at the sound and reaches down toward camera to grab TWO PILL BOTTLES from the ground. Camera PULLS BACK and reveals WET TINFOIL, a CHARRED RED PILL and a MELTED BLUE PILL. GIRL RUNS into HOUSE.

CAMERA IS NOW BACK IN SPACE WITH BOTH ALIENS IN FRAME. 
ALIEN 1 chomps on APPLE and tosses CORE behind it.
Oh! It was experimenting. Still creepy though.

ALIEN 2 
It has an affinity for theatrics, for sure.
–A wild flash of wonder takes over ALIEN 2– 
 Wouldn’t it be crazy if THEY watched US?

ALIEN 1
Yeah, crazy, because they’d need 2 things they’d NEVER get– this orb, and evidence of us. I’m hungry.

ALIEN 2 TRANSFIXED by both the words of ALIEN 1 and the goings on of GIRL stares off into space and crosses its tentacles.
Right, crazy. I could eat. Where did you get that apple? 

ALIEN 2 and ALIEN 1 start to waddle off screen. Can hear trailing conversation.

ALIEN 1 
I dunno it just was there. There’s a place by Big Eye that’s pretty good for wait times–
ALIEN 1 starts to SHAKE.

ALIEN 2 starts to SHAKE too.
Ooh! Big Eye? Cool, let’s go. Did they ever find his Big Foot? 

ALIEN 2 puts GLOWING ORB behind its back.

CAMERA SHOT ON BACKYARD AERIAL VIEW
GIRL runs back out from HOUSE into BACKYARD. GIRL jogs up to EXPERIMENT, where GIRL sees APPLE CORE a few feet away. GIRL looks around BACKYARD, then looks up to SKY. 

Computational Error 21B3S: Blinked Time Warp

All beings that we have met understand our universe is skipping on a cosmic lake. Think rocks and how they bounce on water when thrown in a certain way, at a certain angle, at a certain speed. 

The Urra found this before their 1st extinction event. 

Plet Waztus had an ancient describe the physics of The Big Bang being the touch and launch of our universe.

The One knew amongst themselves in evolutionary instinct, but cannot prove or remember how.

What we all still wonder about is what else interacts with this cosmic lake. Is anything swimming in it?

I forget how acceleration works. Gonna have to look that up.

My thought: Why we are accelerating in expansion (universe) is because the Big Bang was like a rock skipping on the water’s surface and we’re on the down slope of the air time before the skip.

Can individuals be further classified as systems of process?

Does that make sense? 

I write this with a mask on
hat brim over my brow
hardly any of my face showing.

My vision wobbles and I smell smoke
I turn to look to the window
for the glow

I stare and care about how I can only see a slit of the outside world. What’s with the feeling of tragedy? Why has it been like this for so, so long?

Something bizarre has happened. Though it’s not– It’s provable that certain outcomes were bound to happen…

I got high.

I was outside.

I came inside… I climbed the stairs and my mind was a circus…

 Playing all acts, all at once… All of them vying for your favour, your attention… It’s all too much. And it’s… Too much.

I went inside, closed my door. I marched forward on a slippery path. I was pumping myself up and saying beatnik things– had filled my water and marched back towards the door–

And for the first time… A picture fell in my house.

I paused.

I froze… I was realizing the depths of all that I needed to feel before inspecting. I had no courage to inspect without testing my response first. I stood there. I stared. 

I knew immediately which picture it was but let it stay unanalyzed for a moment so I could gather myself. 

“WOMEN IN SPACE”

First thought, What did that? What were the parameters? I had opened all of my windows and it was cold… Perhaps… My steps… I look at the wall where the picture was hanging. Bent nail and frame holder. I look at the ground now and wonder if I can live with myself if it is broken. Dramatic. I know.

I think. I remember not hearing significant glass breaking. I sneak a peak at the frame, now sideways. There is no catastrophe. The picture itself at first glance doesn’t have irreparable damage. I have a jolt of smugness and think to laugh but it makes my stomach ache. This picture matters to me and I have put it in danger.

All scenarios still run through my head and I wonder, Why? Why.

What’s the physics? The quantum? Why right now, exactly?

I decide to mute my head and bend to look further. I gasp, noticing the chunk from the molding resting beside the frame. “I’ll have to fix that.”

I pick up the frame. I hear moving glass. No cracks on the entire face of the picture. I’m awed and I cry. It isn’t ruined. 

It is bizarre to me, that no matter what happened here, physics did it.

Why is there a bodily pull? Why did my spine tingle? I know it is a nervous response. I know there is biochemistry involved. 

What of the unnamed and unquantifiable? Am I just unspecialized? Unlearned? I think that’s an extremely high possibility. Why is it that felt significant?

Is it okay to walk away from things?

Or is it a way to perpetuate a view?

Some have seen many places with me, and some have stayed in one spot. Some live beneath my bed frame in unlabeled plastic totes.

I’ve lit four candles and I’m not sure why but they’re in a diamond shape at my side, on the floor. 

I was thinking about how these manmade jewels are recognized as treasures for me once and awhile. I can’t believe I’m the one who has buried them. Squirreled these moments of wonder away. 

In my lap, a “Mythology” book. On the cover, for what feels like the first time, I recognize Greek symbols. I stare. The cover is ribboned in gold with a blue green text. There’s a texture on it. I’m not able to focus enough to understand if it’s reminiscent of reefs or if it’s scaly— 

I see it :O
The omega. :O

I grab another item from where the Mythology book appeared.

 “UFV FALL 2012 ASTRONOMY 103 LAB MANUAL.” I flip past the front cover. A table of contents is neatly lined. An idea comes to mind.

In terms of historical events tied to what is inhuman in us, the last few decades seem to be quite human. After WW3, the North Americans quieted away, and their Right To Life Laws turned into Rights To Dream and their national anthems turned from marches to ballads. The Eurasia Group decided to keep their borders in the Northern Hemisphere, but released all of Africa’s rightful territories, hoping that would give new freedoms. The peoples of Africa built the world’s largest forest, spanning the continent from the seas of Alexandria to South Africa’s Atlantic. Their farming of algae, fungi, and  hyperoxygenating plant-life, help significantly improve the Earth’s atmospheric toxicity levels. 

India and Japan have made extremely progressive education agreements [[under law<–[what do i mean here] as the JaDia Scripts]] pertaining to sharing all STEM-related advancements and discoveries. They offer International Information Agreements (IIAs) to any nation, and grants at a municipality level to partake in related studies.

The world watches and takes notes. 

Humans like to experiment and appreciate novelty. They also find ways to define themselves further from, and in congruency with, the lives around them.

 It is in talks that The Philippines will be joining Spain and the nations in Africa, in entering a record-making IIA under the JaDia Scripts, venturing to offer freedoms to Defined Intelligent Organisms (DIOs). A panel of representatives, one per nation, will be elected to assign DIOs. 

I exist in the shallow end of their existence
and some grow into oceans
and I live in the shallow end
Preferably in the place where waves reach just below your knee
so that you can sit, even float, but your hand can still be an anchor
because you’ll be swallowed by the current otherwise
there’s an undertow here
and the slightest pull will get you

    People of Earth have seen great and expansive changes over the planet’s history; exacerbated natural disasters that decimate, massive political shifts that divide, and individual acts of love that alter life courses. 

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