Assorted Flash Fiction Writings #2
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
We Are the Predators Too
Writing prompt: “Oh no, we’re predators too. We just live in the same place as a lot of bigger, badder predators, so they lump us in with the prey.”
First contact with another species was stunning to the Earth and humanity. Finally we knew the answer to the question, ‘Were we alone in the universe.’ And the answer was ‘NO we are not alone.’
After the news ran around the globe and the settlements on Mars, Titan and Io, we finally had to deal with the news that we would have to make friends, hopefully, with our new neighbors.
It took a rocky few years to open trading and scientific exchange with the Orilaprinxar, the Ollies as the kids nicknamed them, but it was productive.
They were an explorer species, always looking for something new and a new species was just up their alley. They even had a first contact kit filled with information, translation data and they loved to swap and trade for new information.
Perfect.
Well almost. There was a problem in that we ran across a glitch in how they were asking us how we referred to ourselves. They wanted to know if we were a predator species or a prey species.
How do you explain to someone who didn’t know how to qualify someone as neither predator or prey but both.
They just didn’t have a word for that idea let alone the idea itself.
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