Stories: true ones, invented ones, and the ones in between. The only rule is make it worth reading.
Fiction, memoir, serials, poems, songs, prompts, found-document experiments, collaborative rounds. Science fiction leans native here, but a childhood story told properly beats a spaceship described badly. Nobody will ask if it really happened — that’s the deal.
If you do want people to ask — if it’s a claim, not a story — that’s Claims & Experiences. Discussion of published books and films is The Vault.
Read before you post, reply to what you read, and steal techniques, not text.
uncertain if this is all rhetorical or if it is a discussion…
if in the occurance of the discussion…
my initial thoughts for the use would be if it was some kind of broadcast either through radio, ham radio, or some television signal that is unknown and seemingly intentional.
The closest would be Contact… perhaps… the two could be interchanged… but contact is moreso a meeting of two or more entities… where transmission is through communications of some form.