THE SHAPE OF THINGS by RAY BRADBURY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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A futuristic couple have their first baby using a new delivery room process only to find that the baby appears quite different from a human baby.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your host John |
| 0:34.5 | Hagenhorn today a great short story from one of my favorite short story authors |
| 0:39.4 | Ray Bradbury this one's called The Shape of Things. |
| 0:44.5 | He did not want to be the father of a small blue pyramid. |
| 0:48.8 | Peter Hort hadn't planted that way at all. |
| 0:51.6 | Neither he nor his wife imagined that such a thing could happen to |
| 0:54.6 | them. They had talked quietly for days about the birth of their coming child. |
| 0:59.7 | They had eaten normal foods, slept a great deal, taken in a few shows, and when it was time for her to fly in the helicopter to the hospital, her husband, Peter Horn, laughed and kissed her. Honey, you'll be home in six hours, he said. |
| 1:16.0 | These new birth mechanisms do everything but father the child for you. |
| 1:20.0 | She remembered the old time song, |
| 1:23.0 | No, no, they can't take that away from me, and sang it, |
| 1:27.0 | and they laughed as the helicopter lifted them over the green way from country to city. |
| 1:32.0 | The doctor, a quiet gentleman named Walcott, was very |
| 1:37.1 | confident. Polly Ann, the wife, was made ready for the task ahead and the father was put, as usual, out in the waiting room where he could suck on cigarettes or take high balls from a convenient mixer. |
| 1:50.0 | He was feeling pretty good. |
| 1:52.0 | This was the first baby, but there was not a thing to worry about. |
| 1:56.0 | Polly Ann was in good hands. |
| 1:58.0 | Dr Walcott came into the waiting room an hour later. |
| 2:02.0 | He looked like a man who has seen death. |
| 2:05.2 | Peter Horn, on his third highball, did not move. His hand tightened on the glass and he whispered, |
| 2:12.6 | She's dead? |
| 2:13.8 | No, said Wokot quietly. |
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