Yellow slick

May 27, 2015July 9, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 5 Comments

I tried telling people that the bruises were from my clumsiness, or that I merely bruised easily. No one believed me. The tiny, evenly spaced, purple ovals, the exact shape of an angry fingertip, erupted on my arms regularly, often with the previous alien markers not completely faded alongside the newer ones. As a child, … Continue reading Yellow slick

Harsh planet

May 21, 2014May 24, 2014 ~ Tara R. ~ 4 Comments

I admit it... I love television shows like “Ancient Aliens,” “Cosmos,” and “Through the Wormhole.” All those extraterrestrial theories are fascinating and exciting. Consider it... how lonely to believe that Earth is home to the only life forms in all of infinite space. I get all giddy thinking about whether there are other sentient beings on … Continue reading Harsh planet

Ancient aliens

March 11, 2013March 22, 2016 ~ Tara R. ~ 18 Comments

The time has come, our return is imminent. Any knowledge we imparted is lost. Advanced civilizations dead and our wisdom forgotten. Any lasting records are disbelieved, or assigned erroneous explanations. We were there when the Great Pyramids were constructed in Giza, when the Mayans and Incas built their mighty empires on the Yucatán Peninsula and … Continue reading Ancient aliens

Visitation

September 22, 2011January 6, 2015 ~ Tara R. ~ 14 Comments

I’m taking several liberties with this piece. I have zero expertise in geology, archaeology, ancient or modern Egyptian history. A major earthquake did hit Egypt in the early 1990s, and Al Mokattam Mountains and St. Simon Monastry are real. Other than that, the rest is total fiction. Looking out the airplane window, I could see … Continue reading Visitation