Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! The weather box on the front door sang quietly: “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today…”Outside, the garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car.After a long wait the door swung down again.At eight-thirty the eggs were shriveled and the toast was like stone. An aluminum wedge scraped them into the sink.
- ▪In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!
- ▪The weather box on the front door sang quietly: “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today…”Outside, the garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car.After a long wait the door swung down again.At eight-thirty the egg
- ▪An aluminum wedge scraped them into the sink.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 11 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ There Will Come Soft Rains [pdf] — Wpi
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| Original publisher | Short Stories |
| Canonical URL | https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:13:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T12:05:42.566Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T12:05:42.566Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | g4WIUtxCWXGk · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would.Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!In the kitchen the breakfast stove ejected eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes.“”Eight-one, tick-tock, eight-one o’clock, off to school, off to work, run, run, eight-one!” But no doors slammed. It was raining outside.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Short Stories.
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