The Fox and the Forest
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Ray Bradbury
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Fox and the Forest” by Ray Bradbury, in Collier’s, 13 May 1950.
Roger Kristen and his wife decide to take a time-travel vacation and then run so they’ll never have to return to the war torn world of 2155 AD.
The inhabitants of the future resent you two hiding on a tropical isle, as it were, while they drop off the cliff into hell. Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them. It is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave. I am the guardian of their collective resentment against you two.
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- “The Fox and the Forest” by Ray Bradbury, in Collier’s, 13 May 1950.