Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 21, 2014

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8502328/1/All-Summer-in-a-Day-By-Ray-Bradbury

His The Fog Horn is one of his best.

My favourite Bradbury is Dandelion Wine. And it is perfect summer reading.

There’s the “White Ice-Cream Suit” or maybe the title didn’t include “White”. “Something Wicked This Way Comes” but that’s a book..

This story has haunted me since I first read it 18 years ago. Whenever we have a few days of rain right in a row, I start to think of how I would have been a different kid without sunshine and the great outdoors. Great reference, Mr. Mallett!

We read this in 9th grade (many,many years ago) along with Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” That one shocked, and then depressed me.

At least its not “The Veldt”

Maybe she can read “The Sound of Thunder”. Then when summer’s over, she can go back to today and re-write her essay to match it.

IN 1982 PBS aired a half-hour dramatization of “All Summer in a Day”. It was really good, and I wish it should show up again somewhere.

An old PBS series of short stories for children, introduced by Lynn Redgrave, rewrote “All Summer in a Day”. It was a wonderful TV story, but much different from the Bradbury originial. Less depressing, but shocking nonetheless, because it exposed the cruelty of those who cannot understand that there are different experiences from their own.

My favorite Bradbury is the one about the fully automated house that keeps cooking and cleaning after everybody has been vaporize by a nuke……

Depressing you want? D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner”.

Robert Heinlein’s “The Door Into Summer” would have made an appropriate reference as well. The title was supposedly inspired by his cat who would sit by the door wanting to go out on a snowy winter day. When the door was opened, the cat decided he didn’t want to go out, but would go to another door and do the same thing. He apparently was looking for “the door into summer”.

R is for Rocket, The Illustrated Man, besides the afor mentioned Something Wicked….which scared the crud out of me the first time I read it.

Hey, I liked “The Veldt.” Tho I wouldn’t want to see it replicated here.

Something Wicked This Way Comes gave me nightmares both times I read it, so I have never tried anything else by Bradbury.

except that the scape-goat you reference was a goat, not a person; and it was driven into the desert, not stoned. Perhaps you’re thinking of the greeks, though they, too, tended to drive the “chosen” ill-fated person out, not kill them.

Actually, a better (and more positive) story is “The Sound of Summer Running”, which I think captures the “Frazz spirit” better.