{"id":292,"date":"2008-03-29T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=292"},"modified":"2008-03-29T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T15:20:00","slug":"nobody-said-a-word-but-i-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Nobody said a word, but I knew"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There was a time when the radio made pictures. There was a time when you could see the sounds you heard. You could look at the radio waves.<\/p>\n

Abandoned now, the memories still exist. Ask anyone, like me, around my age, how the radios at one time used to come with a little TV screen, the size of someone’s palm.<\/p>\n

I guess it was like a cell phone picture screen, but you didn’t see icons and a little computer screen, you saw the radio waves. They shimmered, sort of, and made scratchy looking, wavy shapes.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing like it today. The colors changed a lot, and when you turned the tuning dial, the picture shook and crackled like the music did.<\/p>\n

You couldn’t do a screen capture or save anything. Some people got really good at it though, and would show off the pictures they could make on their radios during recess time at school.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember when the aliens came back, but that’s when all the radio screens disappeared. Nobody said a word, but I knew. I was playing with my radio and watching the scratchy colors and that’s when I saw their ship appear on the tiny screen. I saw it coming through the sky. Just one ship.<\/p>\n

Not long after, my brother’s was gone and no one at school had one anymore, either. I kept mine hidden, but they found it.<\/p>\n

Nobody said a word, but I knew.<\/p>\n

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