'There Will Come Soft Rains' by Ray Bradbury
March 20th 2021 Lately I have been haunted by a dystopian short story: ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ by Ray Bradbury. The story is complete in itself but part of Bradbury’s meditation on Mars and the future of Planet Earth: ‘The Martian Chronicles’. It is set during a single day in 2026, describing a lone house in Allendale, California, that stands intact in a city otherwise obliterated by a nuclear
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