A Collection of Science Fiction Gems

by David Scholes

  Just then word started to come in from all corners of the globe and all forms of communication media. Though first of all through the “Telepathic Times” the World’s first and still its only telepathic newspaper. It was unmistakable. The Benefactor was back.

  “We have come a long way since he was here last,” I said “thanks to the lift up he gave us.”

  This time around the Benefactor helped us in different ways. We needed a different kind of help and he obliged. Still people old enough to remember it first hand worried that the Elementals might come again.

  Through the World Wide Mind it was resolved that we would not just stand idly by if the Elementals came again. We would help the Benefactor through the unification of the 10 billion minds capable of accessing the unified World Wide Mind.

  The Benefactor thanked us politely and individually by accessing the World Wide Mind. It was a brief access by him but tremendously uplifting for us all. Giving us a small insight to the capabilities of Earth’s relatively new World Wide Mind. Or Uni-Mind as it was known for short.

  Eventually the Benefactor left us again. This time the Elementals did not come.

  I do not know why. Though we had heard from distant worlds that their power was on the wane.

  I still dream every night of my Dad as if he were right here with me.

  If the Benefactor had lifted us up mightily on his first visit then on this second visit he enabled us at times to stand on his shoulders.

  The view of the cosmos from those lofty heights was magnificent.

  Later when the mighty Brell, the Multiverse’s most advanced technological race and the Dleene the most advanced psionic race in the Multiverse both came to us in search of friendship we were ready.

  Thanks to the Benefactor

  End