![]() Booth killed Lincoln to gain attention and pleasure. Booth, a self-pitying man who takes pleasure in doing harm. " Downwind from Gettysburg" (originally published in Playboy Magazine, June 1969) When a robotic recreation of Abraham Lincoln is shot dead in a movie theater, Bayes finds the dead Lincoln in a seat on the stage, and reminisces of the past when he and Phipps worked together to create him. Prosperity is near.” Unsure what to make of the message, but ultimately given new hope, the family sets back out on the road. On one is the raised image of a longhorn steer, and the other contains the message “Rest in peace. When the family arrives, the owner presents them with two eggs, laid only days before their arrival. In particular, he looks back fondly on a motel where the owner was the proud owner of a chicken with the ability to tell fortunes. " The Inspired Chicken Motel" The narrator recalls the time he spent traveling with his family during the Great Depression. ![]() The entity envelops the man, and hours later releases his body to wash up on shore. As they begin to walk away, the husband suddenly hears a drowning voice call out for help, and rushes into the water to save it. Storm clouds roll in, and wife believes she has won her husband does not understand why she seems to be cheerful that their last day at the beach has been ruined. Time ticks by, the intelligence in the water growing desperate, knowing that if it cannot lure the man before he leaves today, it will be over. ![]() Increasingly aware of the danger, his wife does all she can to distract him from the call of the ocean. Calling out for the man to step in the ocean, the water entity attempts to draw him to the depths. " The Women" (originally published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1948) A man and his wife are at the beach, but something sinister has awakened in the water. Their attempts to retrieve the baby have proved futile, but they can send Peter and Polly to the same dimension, where they would be reunited with their child, but their altered appearance would force them into solitude from the rest of society. After almost exactly a year, the doctors give them a difficult choice. Time passes, with both Peter and Polly dealing with the burden of raising their abnormal child Polly takes it especially hard and begins drinking heavily. Peter and Polly decide to take the baby home on the condition that the doctors continue ongoing work and research to try to bring their child back into his rightful dimension. While ultimately healthy, the baby's appearance is that of a small blue pyramid with tentacle-like appendages. Because of a series of malfunctions in the new birthing machines, their newborn child has been born into another dimension. " Tomorrow's Child" Peter and Polly are excited about the birth of their first child, but the doctor has unfortunate news. Before long, the complications of burning the house become too much, and the Lordship too friendly, leaving the rebel plans long forgotten. However, before they leave the house, the lordship asks that they also spare the priceless works of art resting in the house. The rebels ultimately agree that it is the only decent thing to do. Offering drinks, he resigns himself to let them burn his house, though bargains with them to do it the following night, so that he and his wife may still attend the theatre. Before they can get on with it, the lordship himself catches them in the act and invites them inside. " The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place" A band of rebels plot to overthrow the local lordship and express their own freedom by burning down his stately home. The traveler then departs to search for Hemingway, hoping to help him find a better end. He goes further to explain that there are right graves and wrong graves that people do not always die at the right time, and this local man is one of them. When asked why he's looking for him, the traveler reveals that his truck has the ability to travel in time. Though the latter is never referred to by name, it becomes clear that he is none other than Ernest Hemingway. In a bar, he finally finds someone who was familiar with the person he is looking for. " The Kilimanjaro Device" (originally titled "The Kilimanjaro Machine", first appeared in Life Magazine, January 1965) After a long drive, a man arrives in Idaho and begins to ask questions about a local who has died. The book takes its name from an included short story of the same title, which in turn took the title from a poem by Walt Whitman published in his collection Leaves of Grass. ![]() I Sing the Body Electric! is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury.
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