There Will Come Soft Rains

A nine-panel comic book grid showing a house in the future. The first panel has the caption, "Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked… memory tapes glided under electric eyes…" and shows a speaker reciting, "Today is August 4, 2026! Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage! Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas and light bills…" The second panel ("Eight-one o'clock! Off to school! Off to work!") shows an rainy-day exterior of the house with a skull visible on the ground. The house and its environs are the remainder of the page, with no people visible anywhere.
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A nine-panel comic book grid showing a house in the future. The first panel has the caption, "Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked… memory tapes glided under electric eyes…" and shows a speaker reciting, "Today is August 4, 2026! Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage! Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas and light bills…" The second panel ("Eight-one o'clock! Off to school! Off to work!") shows an rainy-day exterior of the house with a skull visible on the ground. The house and its environs are the remainder of the page, with no people visible anywhere.
source: https://dochermes.livejournal.com/405625...

"Today is August 4, 2026." Welcome to the future, everyone. From Weird Fantasy no. 17, art by Wally Wood (1953). Whole comic at the link; read about this Ray Bradbury story at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and you can read the story itself here: https://short-stories.co/@raybrad...

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