Ray Bradbury: The Small Assassin
Just when the idea occurred to her that she was being murdered she could not tell. There had been little subtle signs, little suspicions for the past month; things as
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Ray Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder
The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary
Ray Bradbury: All Summer in a Day
‘Ready?’ ‘Ready.’ ‘Now?’ ‘Soon.’ ‘Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?’ ‘Look, look; see for yourself!’ The children pressed to each other like so many roses,
Ray Bradbury: The Other Foot
Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Other Foot,’ included in his collection ‘The Illustrated Man’ (1951), tells the story of a black community on Mars that tensely awaits the arrival of a rocket from Earth, the first in twenty years and with a white man on board. The inhabitants of Mars, who had fled a past of racial discrimination and violence on Earth, are confronted with their memories and the temptation to reverse the roles of oppression as they welcome this new visitor.
Ray Bradbury: There Will Come Soft Rains
“There Will Come Soft Rains,” a short story by Ray Bradbury published in Collier’s magazine in 1950, immerses us in a futuristic, melancholic, and desolate vision of a post-apocalyptic world.