Incubator

Extra-dimensional aliens have been running a generational experiment to tame the arising of dormant human psychic abilities, extraordinary skills that humans would call paranormal. They fear that if these skills manifest too early, their control over subspecies like us would become rather difficult, and even worse, their intervention in our development would be revealed. They cannot allow that to happen, so they devised a contingency plan.

Three decades ago, Margot and her then-boyfriend Thomas won an all-inclusive trip to Costa Carcosa. The trip was to a new Cuban resort that was due to open soon. Today, Margot and Thomas are still a couple, despite the hardships they have faced. They have found comfort in each other’s company. Amazingly, Margot received an invitation to an all-inclusive trip to Cuba to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their first visit to Costa Carcosa. Overjoyed at their good fortune, the couple decided to take a free vacation, one that they could not afford otherwise. They didn’t know it, but they had been subjects of a sinister experiment, one that was about to end.

Note: The prequel of While We Were Sleeping.

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“Those who have guessed the world wholly

will learn the truth.”

-- Graffiti found on a wall in the ruins of Chicago, c. 2077

This story came to me almost fully formed. My role was as usual to carve the true story out from its raw form, filling out some crevices, and polishing it a little, but the core story was there already, waiting for someone to write it. Once I had the last draft, I stepped back and read it with new eyes, expecting to confirm roughly my original view of it. Instead, I saw something different. The result enthralled me, and I hope the reader will have the same reaction.

What would happen if we find out an elite of seemingly omnipotent beings have been guiding our history as a species? What would happen if we dare to take control of our destiny? I hope that the reader will guess the answers to these questions, or at least, to think about them.

ኣብዚ እንታይ ከም ዘጋጠመ ክትዝክር የብልካን።

Margot and Thomas, Costa Carcosa, December 26, 1993. Lost photograph.

“She held his hand and gazed off through the foggy bus window. The sun was just beginning to nourish the frozen city with its warmth light.”
Photo by John Paper, 'Sunrise on the Ottawa River'.

Margot and Thomas got to work in 2023.
From Robert Crumb: “Me 'n my sweetie was walkin' down the street…”

The intervenors.
Art by Bruce Pennington.

Marvel's comic adaptation of the only movie that Thomas watched with his late father in 1980.

Pavilion at Westboro Beach on the Ottawa River at the west end of Lanark Ave. off Churchill Ave. The towers were supposed to be for change and check rooms. Future destination of the temple of the Morlocks.

The temple of the Morlocks according to the 1960 film “The Time Machine.” A future view of the Westboro Beach's pavilion according to the twelve years old Thomas.