The Cowboys of Earth: Martian Journal

A stranger 'pirate' fellow invests in a cowboy-western town and sets-up before a hero-theater involving a Martian distance!

A 'fantasy' vignette inspired by Cowboys & Aliens (Daniel Craig). Happy 2023, WritersCafe! 

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A stranger, sort of a pirate fellow, named Lee, wandered into a rater prototypical western-American town of cowboys/hotels in the United States and established himself as an entertainer and chess-wizard reflective of the future era of social-media/'Selfie' culture of 'personality' driven networking/friendship (ha).

SALLY-ANNE: Say, mister (Lee), they says you're a real 'pirate' or something, and you seem real 'handy' with self-marketing-IQ.

LEE: That's right, lovely lady of this 'fair' Western town, and I intend to set-up as a man of 'fair' business...seeking marriage!

SALLY-ANNE: Something for me (maybe) to consider, Lee, as you've guessed, I'm a single-woman, a western-daughter.

LEE: We'll see then what your 'fair' daddy has to say about his lovely girl seeking a 'hitch' with a 'pirate' with a capitalist-IQ.

SALLY-ANNE: That's cool (ha).

Life began to flower for Lee the new visitor of this iconic western-American town. Lee/Sally-Anne fell in love, and the townsfolk generated 'good' talk. The innkeeper (Christopher) mentioned Lee just might become a 'Giant' of the capitalist-chess tradition/custom. The pharmacist family (Waltons) suggested Lee and Sally-Anne made the sort of 'arranged-love' couple of the United States representative of what made the 'capitalist human race Ego' so expression-rich regarding 'accessible' town-charms (wow).

LEE: Good gossip is always preferable to negative apathy or incomplete disregard...especially for an 'American' settlement!

SALLY-ANNE (Message): "Suddenly, everything changed for our fair-town of talk and life, when a host of alien spaceships from Mars invaded with a special exercise in 'foreign' intelligence challenges and challenged my beau Lee to chess, and Lee managed to achieve a miracle stalemate and 'won' a 'cool' sovereignty-compact with the invaders who promised to exile themselves peacefully (forever!) to the deep-ocean abyss as isolationists, and we followed the chess-miracle/promise statement with a public gun-show involving toy-like weaponry Lee (our very-own 'cowboy-pirate') designed for the display of 'capitalist' human race Ego (wow)."

LEE: Sally-Anne my darling spoken the truth here for our 'fair' town of the United States, for now the fair-game is to create this special town arena gun-show showcase for the invader-aliens who're now simply leaving with a 'fair' accord to the ocean-abyss, and hence, my good people for this town of promise, I've crafted two special 'pirate' pistols filled with hot hydrochloric 'acid' for target-shot displays by myself and the sheriff --- directed at designated metal-tin can targets 'symbolizing' the evermore toy-factory 'creativity' of war itself (ha).

The aliens/Martians, in good exchange gifted Lee a special 'alien-invader' chess-set (toy!) which would serve as a 'premonition' of Earth's future 'fantasy' of encounters/exercises of 'foreign intelligence' involving the stranger forms of gamesmanship direction. In fact, Lee/Sally-Anne commented after this Earth trial, "Cowboys and aliens make for coexistence secrecy...but also (perhaps) for the future-world 'social theater' of surprisingly 'realistic' competition diaries!"

LEE: We're presenting a story 'adaptation' of this entire ordeal for the good townsfolk to recount the 'chess' of this trial (ha).

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here” (Arthur C. Clarke).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)