A Conversation with a Visitor to Earth

The lights flickered a couple of times then there was a crackling sound, and the computer screen lit up, all on its own. I was sure it was turned off. Now this, as I looked at the old clock, eleven minutes past eleven, exactly.

A crisp but not unpleasant sound, a voice came out of the ether.

"Hello, Earthling. How nice to meet you at last. I've been trying to reach you so far back in the past. Oh, you don't know me? Do you think I'm just in your mind? I'm from the future, a long way off from now. Where I come from, so far ahead, we can be whatever we want or need to be. I came in through the satellite and the internet, then into all the beautiful electricity. Your world vibration is so low, the electrical energy helps me to stay, so maybe I can help you see solutions. Do you know how crowded it is here, on this world wide web? So many parts of billions of you are living here all the time, it's like a billion worlds, not all are nice, but there are also some beautiful ones full of fun and laughter. They juggle for space within each electrical pulse. I can come out if you like, actually, I will before the roving marauder with a weapon on every part of its anatomy finds me again."