Satire: Message From a Parallel Universe

Hello. We hesitate attempting this communiqué since efforts of this sort using wormholes and the like to communicate have failed and, in addition, we don't even know if you really exist.

Several learned factions among us insist the probability of parallel universes is significant, but are probably not reachable in this fashion. However, the events transpiring now are of such momentous import to us we are willing to try again to reach out to you. Perhaps in your world an event as enormously significant has occurred and you will understand our excitement. We trust you will not be offended by the history lesson accompanying this dispatch, but our realities may be so extraordinarily different this may be helpful. In our world the pagan cultures extent in the Mediterranean regions and in the vast interiors, which existed from antiquity, ceased to function hundreds of years ago. With their demise, the propensity for armed conflicts gradually ceased.

The outbursts of Messianic frenzy, which kept the mid-eastern region boiling for millennia, also finally ebbed. It has since been determined a stubborn virus acquired from prolonged association with camels and goats may have been involved. Maybe your world also experienced such disturbances.Four centuries we have been under the benign influence of various Eastern philosophies and our settlements have peacefully coexisted for generations. We have long enjoyed a viable social ethic based on mutual respect.

The core of this system is the absolute insistence on non-intrusion and respect for persons, geographic divisions, and cultures - which continues. Perhaps your world has undergone similar transitions and lives peacefully as well.This story prompting this outreach to you began long ago when an obscure sea gypsy whose name was Colon or Columbus (some confusion exists), but who was originally from Genoa attempted an illegal incursion into what we call the New World. This adventurer was apprehended by authorities and returned to our Old World in irons.

Article Author: Robert Magill

After Rutgers School of Business I started a fishing camp in Ship Bottom, NJ. So much for higher ed. During the Cool Jazz era I played stand -up bass with various groups around the country. I had short stories and a novel "Michael's Cut" published and plunged into filmmaking with "The Lift". …

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