Easily my all-time favorite short story is "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. (If you haven't read it, just Google it and you'll find a PDF—seemingly half the schools on earth assign it.) The story takes place exactly a year from now, on August 4th, 2026. In just a few pages, Bradbury recounts the events of the final day of a fully-automated home that somehow survives an apocalyptic nuclear blast, only to continue operating without any surviving inhabitants. Apart from being a ca...
