Green Town

I recently finished the book Summer Morning, Summer Night by Ray Bradbury (Bradbury, Ray) who sounds familiar because he wrote Farenheight 451. It's not a novel, but a collection of stories he wrote about one fictional town that sits quietly as a suburb in Illinois. Some of them are sweet, uplifting, some are scary enough to keep you awake for months, and all of them are thought provoking and unique. In one titled "Love Potion", two sweet old ladies give a girl an elixer that has startling but not exactly magical consequnces, while others, such as "At midnight in the month of June" and "The Projector" really do have magical components. Most are simply amazing in their simplicity and beauty. Many are love stories, such as "Night Meeting" about a man who meets his one true love on a bus but doesn't have the courage to ask her name (which contains a passage I may share later, it's simply wonderful), "A Walk in the Summer", and "Arival and Departure". "The Screaming Woman" is one of the most frustratingly horrifying ones, about a girl that hears a woman screaming underground in an empty lot but no one beleives her for about a week.It serously gave me chills. This one with "I got Something You Ain't got" are dark and frankly have some of the most amazing story telling I've ever seen. You know exactly what will happen, and even though you're totally right, it happens in a way no one would ever dream of, like Clarisse's "suicide" and and the appearance of the screaming woman. If you like Farenheight 451 -just the way Bradbury works with plots- then read it. I should be turning it in today anyway.