Tonight at 8 ET we will discuss The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury. The story is in The October Country or at this link
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Tonight at 8 ET we will discuss The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury. The story is in The October Country or at this link
That was a dark tale with some wacky doctoring.
That doctor gave some of the worst advice I've ever heard.
He gave David a sedative to knock him out when he was home alone with a baby.
That doctor gave some of the worst advice I've ever heard.
He gave David a sedative to knock him out when he was home alone with a baby.
Common knowledge some woman do suffer from post birth depression, but had the awful feeling from the first words of this story that the mother was already concerned/ scared at birth.
Felt a tinge of "Rosemary's Baby"
A very strange tale indeed.
Felt a tinge of "Rosemary's Baby"
A very strange tale indeed.
Wonder what the babies "end game" was?
....of all the Ray I read as a young GNT, I missed this one and the entire collection somehow....holy crappola was this ever a different side of the Master....should be required reading in HS Sex Ed classes....I agree Spidey that there was the scent of Rosemary Baby lotion.....certainly the womb as an incubator of evil is not a revolutionary trope, but he made it one of the creepier ones.....if I were Dad, I’d be hookin’ another stogie from the sawbones and showing the whole mess the heels of his shoes....
...stupid phone loaded my post twice....would one of the Mods be kind enough to strike it from the record?....
At first, I thought Alice was delusional (as did the other characters) because I didn't really expect a killer baby.
This is the darkest story I can remember from Ray. It starts off dark and never lets up. There's not a light moment in it. He must have been mad at one of his kids when he wrote this.
Mother's instinct. She knew something wasn't right. Just took the others a tad longer to see the results.
Back to your first post fljoe0 --- what doctor would leave a baby alone with a sedated father.
Back to your first post fljoe0 --- what doctor would leave a baby alone with a sedated father.
...one that needed more cigars....
The doctor said he was going to give him something to knock him out for 24 hours. That's a long time to leave your baby unattended.
I wouldn't want to be sedated around that baby.
And how about that ending? The doctor takes out his scalpel. yikes.
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I could not read the link as AVG claimed it was infected with something suspicious?Tonight at 8 ET we will discuss The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury. The story is in The October Country or at this link
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Sorry
Do you think the doctor succeeded in "doing away with/ killing " the baby ?
Judging from the way the rest of the story went, YES. (unless the baby got him first)
A shout out to fljoe0 -- thank you for starting this short story weekly reading group. So many new authors. Discovery of their styles not usually read. Excellent input from all the members postings.
Guess we'll take next week off and return on August 28th.
Guess we'll take next week off and return on August 28th.
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