![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bright, chipper language that nobody would ever hear again announcing the daily schedule while it cleaned up and made the meals that nobody would eat. Two things within the story made me sad enough to show it, and unlike most folks who would think it would be the dog in the story, it was the odd things that set me off – the shadow of the family burned into the side of the house when they were playing catch, and the house itself, still doing its best to fulfill its primary function and reason for existing. I didn’t understand why, but something in this story had found a way through the maze of my mis-wired brain and triggered an emotional response. I read this short story and it did something that shocked me. I was reading high school level novels in grade school, eventually graduating to college textbooks on astronomy and science when I was nine years old. I encountered There Will Come Soft Rains when I was a little kid. ![]()
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