- Aliens -

What does a lady biting her nails while looking out into the distance, a man clacking away at a keyboard and a priest have in common. If you guess nothing, then you were right. They have nothing in common, but in this fateful time, they will all, at the same time, witness something spectacular. Each flash of time spent on each other’s ideas let them know that. Something like this might just happen today. When each of them stepped out to look at each other, then and only then did they notice the light coming in through the large windows of the cafe. A pinkish green light poured in, cascading and taking over all the other colors in the room. Each one, did not seem bothered by this. They stared out into the color and gave a look to each other to make sure that they were all seeing the same thing. By which seeing the colors and expressions on each other’s faces, they knew it was true. The lady had started to bite her nails even faster and harder. The priest took another sip of his coffee, and the man kept typing away. All with their eyes glancing towards the windows and still at the light. Pouring in.

Then it all went normal. the light disappeared and outside sat a large saucer object. It was a dull gray and stood on four thin legs in the parking lot. The man on the keyboard sighed and bit into a bagel. He peeked up just a moment from his screen to acknowledge the object. A small door opened and a ramp extended out from it to the ground.From the craft a small gray thing appeared and made its way down from the ramp and to the front door of the cafe. The door slowly opened in a fluid motion and the thing stepped in. It’s large head held two large black ovals that shined back at everything. There was no mouth and its body was small with short arms and legs. It waddled over to the front counter past the three of them and looked up at the menu hanging from the ceiling. The barista leaned over the counter at it and stared for a moment. She nodded and disappeared into the back. The gray alien hopped up next to the man typing away and sat to wait. He didn’t seem to mind only giving a quick glance when it hopped. It’s legs hung and swung as it waited making no sound. The priest and the woman looked over to the man. He could feel their stares and broke his eyes from his screen to glance at each. They all rose their eyes rows at each other and then went back to what they were doing. The barista came back up front and the alien hopped back to the ground and approached her. She handed it a small black and gray coffee cup with glowing green and blue liquid inside which projected out through the drinking spout. The alien bowed slightly and waddled back towards the door, then out to it’s ship. The purple greenish light returned and the vanished quick this time. The ship was gone. Each sat still occupied by what they were doing, each did not say a word to each other. None ever brought it up and never told. Even if it happened every Tuesday at 2 a.m.

Inspired by the people in Starbucks with me as I wrote this

As far as anyone could tell something had crash landed out in the fields of numenberg. What was it? Well, that was the mystery. When I came into town after the incident had been reported it seemed that no one had remembered anything about it, besides it actually happening. My first day in this weirdo town started like this. I drove in and parked in front of a hardware store on the downtown Main Street. I saw a little lady walking with a big smile on her face. Big flowy dress and her hair was all done up. I got out of my car and approached her.

“Ma’m” I said “Do you know what fell out of the sky the other day” She turned to me with that big smile.

“Oh, no sir, I have no clue what it was, are you sure it fell out of the sky? And over Numbernberg?” I had my notepad at the ready and looked at her.

“Well, of course I know it was Numenberg. The whole town pretty much cried out for help, pictures and eye witnesses. It was a huge thing. Just two days ago. Here, in this town” The lady looked me, then checked her watch.

“No, I don’t think so” she said and walked away.Okay, this lady was just a bit off. So I went to the local diner and sat at the bar. A couple old fellas’ were having some sandwiches next to me. I pulled out my notebook and got my pen ready.

“Hey, fellas, I was wondering if you could help me out with the thing that fell out of the sky the other day, it was a big event here” They both looked at each other and then at me.

The man closest me said “Yeah, not sure about that one. You sure it was here?”

The other man jumped in “Yeah, I saw it, but it wasn’t here” My eyes started spinning.

“Look fellas, you saw it, but it wasn’t here? What does that mean?” The waitress came to take my order.

“One question, yes, the ham sandwich, one moment” I took a sip of water “Do you remember a thing, who knows what is, falling out of the sky the other day. Here, in Numenberg.” The waitress thought for a moment and gasped. This is it. My pen was digging into the paper.

“No, your sandwich will be up in a minute honey” she said and turned away. I rubbed my eyes and flipped my notebook shut. Where did I go wrong in life.

“Excuse me sir” a voice came from behind me “I might have some answers for you” I gave a heavy sigh and gestured to the stool next to me.

“I guess I will take what ever you got” I reluctantly flipped open my notepad and turned. The man looked at me, but not with two eyes, but four of them. Another pair stacked right on top of the other. His skin was a grayish purple and he smiled at me charmingly.

“You will get your story, but I am afraid that things for you are about to get a little bit confusing” His eyes strolled around and looked at each person he could see “very confusing”

Inspired by Idea of Towns and stories that make no sense