Ray Bradbury Stories by Ray Bradbury
Author:Ray Bradbury
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, General, Classics, Hard Science Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories (Single Author)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-06-28T03:01:41+00:00
Mrs Elmira Brown’s foot hurt her in the middle of the night, so she got up and went down to the kitchen and ate some cold chicken and made a neat, painfully accurate list of things. First, illnesses in the past year. Three colds, four mild attacks of indigestion, one seizure of bloat, arthritis, lumbago, what she imagined to be gout, a severe bronchial cough, incipient asthma, and spots on her arms, plus an abscessed semicircular canal which made her reel like a drunken moth some days, backache, head pains, and nausea. Cost of medicine: ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Secondly, things broken in the house during the twelve months just past: two lamps, six vases, ten dishes, one soup tureen, two windows, one chair, one sofa cushion, six glasses, and one crystal chandelier prism. Total cost: twelve dollars and ten cents.
Thirdly, her pains this very night. Her toe hurt from being run over. Her stomach was upset. Her back was stiff, her legs were pulsing with agony. Her eyeballs felt like wads of blazing cotton. Her tongue tasted like a dust mop. Her ears were belling and ringing away. Cost? She debated, going back to bed.
Ten thousand dollars in personal suffering.
‘Try to settle this out of court!’ she said half aloud.
‘Eh?’ said her husband, awake.
She lay down in bed. ‘I simply refuse to die.’
‘Beg pardon?’ he said.
‘I won’t die!’ she said, staring at the ceiling.
‘That’s what I always claimed,’ said her husband, and turned over to snore.
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