Screens

By Linda Murphy

It’s all very sad really.  Never belonging to anything or anywhere.  A life in limbo, a life of screens.  I sit in a chair somewhere I don’t know.  I can’t see all of it, where I am, but I sit in a chair facing movable screens like wardrobe screens.  It is dark and fuzzy around me.  I sit patiently and silently; I am all alone.  Which screen will I see next?  

A screen slides in front of me.  I can’t see who moves and manipulates the screens.  The screen is tall and narrow and the fabric takes on a colorful image as I sit before it.  I watch the image form placidly before me.  The Wilbur house?  Animals?  Intelligent animals like a deer?  A horse?  A cat? 

Maybe I’ll hear words from the screen like my answering machine has a message on it, or I’m holding a dog like a baby and hearing something that doesn’t make sense.  It could be so many images.  Maybe I’m going to get my hair cut or maybe I’ll see my cousin with the beautiful golden eyes.  One screen moves out of the way and a new one comes before me.  Oh, I can’t get my windows closed again, is that a little boy?  Oh, it’s an intelligent tan spider.  No, it’s Mick Jagger.  Oh, that’s what it was.

Shuffle the screen images and words.  I’m still sitting in my chair.  Perhaps one screen will take me into the fabric and I will journey to another world.  A desert world with mountain ranges and a museum filled with non-Earthly objects.  Maybe I’ll go to a white room where anything could happen.  Maybe I’ll see the Earth from orbit.  Maybe I’ll have to do things I can’t tell anyone about.

Shuffle the screens again.  I’ll close my eyes again.  It’s always the same.  Whether it’s 1994 or 2008 it’s always the same.  So here’s to 2008; the fabric of the screens holds tight, the ignorance of humanity continues, and one stupid little abductee will always remain invisible to everyone and everything.  Ignorance is truly bliss. 

by Linda Murphy, © 2007

Linda Murphy Biography

My name is Linda Murphy. I have been married for 25 years and I am currently a full time student studying for my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.  My interests are writing, reading, drawing, painting, science and nature, and I also play the guitar.  I am a cat lover, but I would love to have horses one day as well as some dogs, and maybe some other types of critters as well. 

I have been facing the reality of aliens since the mid-1980s.  I never had an interest in UFOs or considered the concept of alien beings until a life-changing moment occurred that made me look at this phenomenon in a new light.  It took years after that to make me realize the scope of this new reality, and I am still learning about it all the time.