Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. “Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, “in the city of Allendale, California.” It repeated the date three times for memory’s sake. If you flip them and cook them on both sides they’re fried over easy, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up 4 Fried eggs that are sunny-side up have only been cooked from the bottom. gave a hissing 3 To express disapproval or contempt (for) by making a hiss sound. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine! In the kitchen, the breakfast stove 2 A portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. IN THE LIVING ROOM, the voice-clock sang, tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid nobody would. Later that same year the story was included in Bradbury’s T he Martian Chronicles (1950). By Ray Bradbury 1 There Will Come Soft Rains is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was first published in the issue of Collier’s.
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