Excerpt from \"All Summer in A Day\"
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all summer in a day. By Ray Bradbury. Ready, Ready. Now soon. Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today? Will it see for yourself? The Children pressed to each other, peering out for a look at the hidden son. It rained. It had been raining for seven years, thousands of days full from one end to the other with rain. 1000 forests have been crushed under the rain and grown up 1000 times to be crushed again. This was the way of life forever on the planet Venus. This was the school room of the Children of the rocket men and women who had come to the reigning world to set up a civilization and live out their lives. It's stopping. It's stopping. Yes, yes, Margot stood apart from them from these Children who could never remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain. They were all nine years old. And if there had been a day seven years ago, when the sun came out for a now ER, they could not recall sometimes at night she heard them stir. She knew they were dreaming and remembering a warmness like a blushing in the face. But then they always awoke and their dreams were gone. All day. Yesterday, they had read in class about the sun and written poems about it. I think the sun is, ah, flower that blooms for just one hour. That was Margo's poem read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside. Or you didn't write that, protested one of the boys. Hey did, said Margot. Hey, did William, said the teacher. But that was yesterday, and now the rain was slackening.