Book 62: "From the Dust Returned" by Ray Bradbury
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kittiwakeTimothy prayed to the darkness.
"Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones who'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmère who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be one! If they live forever, why not me?"
Over the course of fifty years, Ray Bradbury wrote these stories about the Elliott family, whose members include mummies, werewolves, flying men, a dreamer who sleeps through her life, travelling to far off places and into other people's minds, and other more mysterious October People. The Elliots are scattered throughout the world, but all return periodically to the family's mysterious house in upper Illinois for a get-together known as the Homecoming, and it is the Timothy, the only human member of the family (who was left in a basket on the doorstep as a baby) who records the history of this strange but close family.
"Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones who'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmère who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be one! If they live forever, why not me?"
Over the course of fifty years, Ray Bradbury wrote these stories about the Elliott family, whose members include mummies, werewolves, flying men, a dreamer who sleeps through her life, travelling to far off places and into other people's minds, and other more mysterious October People. The Elliots are scattered throughout the world, but all return periodically to the family's mysterious house in upper Illinois for a get-together known as the Homecoming, and it is the Timothy, the only human member of the family (who was left in a basket on the doorstep as a baby) who records the history of this strange but close family.
