Eight Sentence Post - #weeklywritersworkshop #prompt #aliens #space #stars

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Tonight, I stared up at the dark sky, wrapped in my coat, staring at the stars that seemed far more bright than I'd noticed before. So many stars, in the same patterns they've always been. How can we be alone here in this vastness, I'm left to wonder? And if we aren't alone, why haven't the other beings been inclined to reach out, to connect? 

I have to chuckle, because for me, if I were an alien, I know exactly why I wouldn't bother. We earthlings are fucking terrible - not all, but far too damn many. What exactly do we have to offer since we can be so brutally horrific to one another on our own planet, have shown so by our own history, and continue to do so this present day? I'd stay as far away as possible for fear of being pillaged, prisoned, enslaved, vilified, and/or victimized, too . 

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