I can, but I don't want the responsibility of coming up with the next quotation!

Oh, all right.
"And So Died Riabouchinska"!

OK. Try this:

"Show me the crayfish and the butterflies," she said.

quote:

Originally posted by Braling II:
"Show me the crayfish and the butterflies," she said.

Awww... that's a sweet story.

Braling II replied:

quote:

Oh, all right.
"And So Died Riabouchinska"!

Right, of course! And the alternate title is "The Golden Box" as it appeared in The Saint Detective Magazine(U.K.)March, 1957 (info. found in Ray Bradbury The Life of Fiction by Eller and Touponce.) What is fascinating is the psychological take Bradbury makes in having a murderer's conscience confess for him through such utter and obsessive immersion in his art. Nothing supernatural about it.

It is Braling II's turn and he wrote

quote:

OK. Try this:

"Show me the crayfish and the butterflies," she said.

A very sweet story indeed.
So Doug, did you Google the quote or remember it? Care to give the title?


By the way inspired by "Ria", I've begun re-reading "Machineries of Joy". God! What great writing! I've read the stories through "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms..." and am newly amazed...

http://www.youtube.com/results...rt+1%2C+2%2C+3+&aq=f


Down right creepy...enjoy!
f

quote:

Originally posted by Braling II:
A very sweet story indeed.
So Doug, did you Google the quote or remember it? Care to give the title?

Very well. I'll give it:

I'll Never Forget You. I just read it recently, actually. Who could forget crayfish?!

Actually, it's "A Story of Love" (in "Long After Midnight"). Two titles for the same story, perhaps?

quote:

Originally posted by Braling II:
...Two titles for the same story, perhaps?

Correct. Although two different-lengthed versions exist, but I can't remember whether this correlates with the two different titles.

Yes, same story. I didn't read it from LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT recently. I disremember where. Perhaps a reprint from the magazine it was originally published in.

"The men of earth came to Mars."

I hear there's work available in the sky. Doug Spalding's Name this Ray Bradbury Story Line:

quote:

"The men of earth came to Mars."

From the bridge short short story "The Settlers".

Mars. Speaking of which, Colonial Radio Theatre has audio clips of their forthcoming release of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

http://www.colonialradio.com/HTML/whatsnew.html

quote:

Originally posted by Linnl:
From the bridge short short story "The Settlers".

Correct.

From another, and lovely short:

"There waited the great pool of grass with its tender heads of clover and its devil weed, with its old acorns hidden, with its ant civilizations."

Nobody's biting.
Another clew, mayhaps?

Apologies, Braling II, if this short-short story is from a (recent) collection you have not read yet:

"As the body of a boy on a sweltering July day yearns toward swimming holes, so the feet are drawn to oceans of oak-cooled grass and seas of minted clover and dew."