““And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.””
Ray Bradbury book The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.”
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