Absalom

Due to mutations that occur every generation, children are becoming smarter than their parents before them. When a son intellectually surpasses his father at age eight, what are the implications? See also Star Bright (X Minus One) and A Child Is Crying (Mindwebs)

Adam and No Eve

When an energy conversion experiment goes awry, the earth is turned into an ash-filled landscape. The last man on earth—the person responsible—starts a dogged journey to the sea to set things right.

Affair with a Green Monkey

A nurse and her husband (a rehabilitation expert for the government) rescue a man from a brutal mob beating. The husband explains that mobs attack people who appear different because they think that anything different is dangerous... and this young man certainly appears different.

After the Myths Went Home

Millennia from now, the bored human race amuse themselves by 'resurrecting' the great heroes and myths out of history and imagination.

Allegory

An inventor seeking to patent his anti-gravity device comes up against a bureaucracy convinced that such a device is scientifically impossible.

Apartment Hunting

In an overcrowded future, a young couple achieve the right to their own apartment—if they can carve through the red tape in time to kill its present occupant before the deadline.

Apple

In a time when miners tunnel into giant apples to collect the creamy, ripe flesh, others seek to keep the miners safe by destroying the moths that hide within.

The Available Data on the Worp Reaction

At six years old, the mentally challenged Aldus Worp begins collecting parts from the city dump. Nearly twenty years later, something miraculous happens.

Beachhead in Utopia

In the past 10 years, the International Poverty Control Agency has made great progress toward eliminating all poverty. William Zarney, however, has not been able to find work for 2 years. Something must be done about it.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

An intern at a mental hospital relates his experience with an inmate and explores the notion that dreams, although often mundane, can sometimes reveal a separate mental realm.

The Bible after Apocalypse

A part of New Jersey, a suburb of Cleveland, and a small town in the state of Washington become three columns of smoke as ships begin landing from the Crab Nebula.

Born of Man and Woman

A classic story of a malformed youth kept locked in a cellar by his own horrified parents.

The Brink of Infinity

A mathematician is held captive by a madman who demands he solve an impossible equation or be killed.

The Builder

In 1950s suburbia, Elwood—a man who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and shuns most people—builds a boat in his backyard, to the annoyance of his wife and neighbors.

The Cage

Without the power of language, how could you prove to a wholly alien life-form that you are a rational being? To the survivors of the wrecked spaceship Lode Star it was a riddle of a more vital sort: a riddle of life or death.

Carcinoma Angels

A wealthy entrepreneur who has conquered every challenge life has to offer takes on his own mortality when he discovers he has cancer.

The Castaway

A futuristic Robinson Crusoe crash lands on a planet of eternal daylight, which makes the passage of time hard to quantify. He begins to measure his stay in a different manner.

Cephes 5

A green space officer seeks out a venerable old counselor to help dispel his feelings that something is wrong onboard their starship. Instead of solace, however, the counselor can only offer a disturbing revelation.

A Child Is Crying

A nervous military gets their hands on a freaky 7 year old boy who has an IQ well above Einstein's, an ability to calculate the future, and his own intentions for how that future will play out. See also Star Bright (X Minus One) and Absalom (Mindwebs)

Computers Don't Argue

A disagreement with his book club over an undue charge ignites a series of tragi-comical events that eventually lands Mr. Walter A. Child on death row.

Corrida

A story of a man tormented by a thing.

The Country of the Kind

In a world where violence and crime have been almost totally eliminated, a man engages in antisocial behavior.

Crisis

Earthmen meet to study a proposal from an alien race; the aliens wish to send an ambassador to Earth to see if Earth is mature enough for long-term interstellar contact. Should Earth accept the proposal at face value?

The Day of the Butterflies

A farm girl working in Manhattan starts to imagine the city is being invaded by the country.

Descending

A man finds himself on a series of escalators that only go down and seemingly don't lead anywhere.

Desertion

Four men have been transformed into native Jovian life forms and sent from the protective dome to explore the surface of Jupiter. None have returned.

Devil Car

To avenge the death of his brother, Sam Murdock and his death-car Jenny seek out the evil Black Caddy and its pack of wild cars.

Doing Lennon

A man comes up with a scheme to emerge from cryogenic sleep as rock-legend John Lennon. But can he fool the people in the year 2108 (or is it 2180?) and live out his dream?

Don't Look Now

A drunk in a bar harasses a fellow patron with warnings about Martians who are secretly controlling the world.

A Dream at Noonday

A man drifts between recollections of his childhood and observations of his present situation. The prose is dream-like, almost hypnotic in its effect, with an overall impact that may well stay with you for a lifetime... or not.

Dreamworld

A young boy immerses himself in daydreaming and fantasy, much to the chagrin of his aunt who is trying to raise him by rule and rod and pious memory of her deceased sister. "Face reality, Eddie," she constantly tells him.

Earthmen Bearing Gifts

The last of the dying Martians anticipate the arrival of the first explorers from Earth.

The Eel

The "Eel" is a super-thief whose eventual capture has been an eagerly anticipated event on a dozen worlds across half the galaxy. The politicians, lawyers and bureaucrats have all been drooling over the opportunity to exact a lengthy and unpleasant vengeance... but will they manage to convict and punish him? The Eel did not earn his name for nothing...

En Passant

Suddenly, and without warning, a man loses his head and struggles to remain calm.

The End

While the members of a small seaside community kill their animals, destroy their possessions, and prepare for The End, a lone man wonders if maybe this isn't The End and life can continue in the guessed-at islands beyond the horizon.

The End of the World Rag

A rambling reminiscence about how Apathy killed incentive, desire, love, and everything we ever really cared about.

The Enormous Radio

A couple's broken radio starts picking up conversations from elsewhere in their apartment block, and they can hardly resist becoming voyeurs into the sordid privacies of their neighbours.

The Eternal Machines

A hermit with a poetic soul takes sole custodianship of a junk planet—the garbage dump of the galaxy—in order to build an eternal monument to his creative urges.

Eurema's Dam

He was the last of the dolts—the last of dumb kids. But, sometimes, stupidity is the mother of invention. Hugo winner, 1973.

The Ever-Branching Tree

A teacher takes his class on a field trip through time to explore the origins of life.

The Evergreen Library

After Pruett Evergreen dies, his lawyer visits the Evergreen Estate to make sure everything is in order prior to passing on the bulk of the property, including the library, to the Enchiridion Society—a European group that has something to do with books.

The Exhibition

William Francis Howell Markem, ident-a-gram 5551070023, is one of 8,997,020 living impressionist painters. He is still on the dole... which means he is an unknown... which means he is a failure... But he has just painted his 105th painting and if he can sell it, he just might become a Recognized Artist.

The Fly

A prospector, while taking a break for lunch, notices a spiderweb and watches an ancient, unfolding drama between spider and fly. But there is something strange about that fly.

The Fog Horn

A lighthouse's lonely fog horn calls up a primeval horror out of the depths.

A version of this story was produced by the BBC. Also served as the inspiration for the film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.

The Food Farm

Nelly is a very big girl, and that's just how Tommy Fango likes them.

The Funny Farm

When attempting to rob an eccentric comic book collector, a thief encounters some unexpected complications.

Game for Motel Room

After spending a satisfying night together, a man listens to his lover tell a bizarre tale about her life and her relationship with her husband.

The Garden of Time

An aristocratic couple try to keep history's destructive tide of humanity at bay.

Gas Mask

One summer afternoon, at about 5:30, the eight lanes of traffic around Charlie Bates slowed to a creep and finally to a standstill. Gridlock. How long will it take to get moving again when there is nowhere to go? And what should Charlie Bates do in the meantime?

The Gift

On a trip to Mars, parents plan a special Christmas gift for their son.

The Great Slow Kings

Twin reptilian monarchs who have lost their kingdom and all their subjects, save for one robot servant, ponder searching the galaxy for new subjects... but their painfully slow metabolisms make the effort difficult, to say the least.

The Gun without a Bang

Dixon had ventured far from his spaceship and knew he was being followed, but he wasn't worried. He was a great believer in personal armament, and he was carrying The Weapon. He was protected. Why look for fuzzy economic, philosophical or political reasons when everything was so simple?

The Hall of Machines

A lengthy narrative describing the mechanical wonders of a repository of ancient machines whose purpose has long been forgotten.

Hands of the Man

A "spotter" encounters a "sky man" in a tavern and engages in a tricky and delicate negotiation for the sale and delivery of the truly impressive ring which the sky man is wearing.

Happily Ever After

A newly married couple settle on their own asteroid. Features music of Isao Tomita.

Harrison Bergeron

Classic story of a rebel in an age whose political correctness has lead to a fanatical devotion to the lowest common denominator.

The Haunted Space Suit

An astronaut on a spacewalk is convinced that something is trying to get into his spacesuit.

Helen O'Loy

Two young men collaborate on modifying a household robot—originally meant only to cook food and clean—in order to allow it to have emotions.

The Hell-Bound Train

A young drifter makes a deal with the Devil and promises to ride the Hell-bound train when the time comes. Hugo winner, 1959.

I Kill Myself

A scientist involved in the creation of an ultimate weapon begins to suffer pangs of conscience.

I See You

A research engineer developers a distant viewer; after production, some units fall into the hands of political dissidents ...

The Icebox Blonde

A stodgy husband is forced to confront his conservative mores when his wife has an affair and the local supermarket is selling female androids in its freezer section.

Impostor

Story of a future weapons scientist working to save Earth from an alien invasion who finds himself accused of being an alien changeling, a clone with a ticking time bomb in his body.

A version of this story was produced by Sci-Fi Radio. Also provided the basis for a movie of the same name.

An Infinity of Loving

Two young lovers, lucky to fall in love, fear that their love for each other will fail and so seek a means of joining that love together for all eternity.

In the Abyss

An undersea explorer uses a modified diving bell to descend to the bottom of the ocean where he makes an extraordinary discover.

In the Imagicon

Isolated on a cold and desolate colony world and nagged by a shrewish wife, a husband's only escape is through a virtual reality machine. Nebula winner, 1967.

Kaleidoscope

When a meteor destroys a spaceship, its crew is hurled outward into space in a dozen directions. Their suit radios will maintain contact range for only a few hours. What do men talk about when death is imminent?

Versions of this story were done on Dimension X, Bradbury 13, Suspense, and the BBC

Kellerman's Eyepiece

Cyrus Kellerman orders a telescope eyepiece through the mail, only to find it discontinued. The newer model sent to him by the telescope company, however, seems to pick up more than just stars and moon craters. Like Allegory and Computers Don't Argue, this story was written in the brilliant form of back and forth correspondence.

The King of the Beasts

A biologist of the future recreates extinct animals for a zoo/laboratory... including the most dangerous animal of them all.

Knock

Aliens who have no concept of natural death have wiped out humanity, literally to the last man and woman, whom they put in a zoo as public curiosities.

The Language of Love

Story of a young lover, frustrated by his inability to articulate his love fully and precisely, who travels to the planet Tyana II to learn the "Language of Love".

The Last Ghost

Eternity is a terrible place to endure alone. Especially when memory has failed and thought processes have nearly ceased. The last ghost struggles with... he searches for... he wants a... he desires some... he loves to....

Letter to a Phoenix

A retrospective on the human race from a man who has lived 180,000 years.

The Liberators

In the far distant future, a group of people awoken from the dream tanks flee the City, whose A.I. brain needs them to provide it with a human soul.

Light of Other Days

A couple driving through the country notice a sign and stop at a farm advertising "slow glass" for sale.

Look Homeward, Spaceman

Paul Robinson returns home on a 2-day furlough after 6 years in space and is surprised at what he finds.

The Machine in Shaft Ten

The discovery of a vast underground machine complex sends civilization into a frenzy of hysteria, despair, social upheaval and religious chaos. Apparently the Machine has been recording human emotions throughout history and transmitting their energy to some distant point in space. The scientist responsible for the discovery resolves to shut the complex down, regardless of what consequence might come of it when the Makers stop receiving...

See also The Sky Was Full of Ships (Mindwebs)

The Man from Earth

When the first Earthman arrives on the capital world of galactic civilization, he unwittingly commits an offence that could cost him his life.

The Man Who Returned

An invalid awakens to discover he has been buried alive.

Martian El Dorado of Parker Wintley

Parker Wintley is out of money, but not of luck or charm. He has secured a claim on a remote area of Mars where a cache of diamonds is ripe for the taking—if he can con them from the natives.

The Maze

Through the use of radioactively-induced mutation and chemically-altered DNA, a researcher attempts to expand intelligence. He uses a maze to provide controlled problems of survival and a method of measuring, testing and selecting those mice that have been successful.

The Meeting

Harry Vladik struggles with possible futures for his developmentally challenged child. Hugo winner, 1973.

The Metal Man

Prof. Thomas Kelvin of the Geology Department of Tyburn College undertakes a solo expedition to find the source of El Rio de la Sangre and, hopefully, deposits of radium-bearing minerals that make the river radioactive.

Midnight Express

Fantasy and reality become blurred in a dream about a stranger at a dark train station.

Moth Race

A future society of drug-induced pacifists finds emotional release through the minds and feelings of champions willing to risk their lives in a deadly game of car vs. computer.

My Object All Sublime

An evening's musings between friends on time travel takes an unpleasant turn.

Nackles

Does God create Men, or does Man create gods? It might seem an academic question, but it seems that nearly every god has a corresponding devil. And if Man does create his own gods... then I guess the next question would be whether Santa Claus is a god?

Nature Boy

A somewhat surreal psychological tale about... er... about... Actually I have no idea what this story is about. Sorry.

The Night He Cried

A parody in which a peace-loving alien from Galactic Center attempts to reform a misogynistic man named Slickey Millane. With Mary Armandroff as the alien.

A Night in Elf Hill

A spacer writes his Earth-bound psychiatrist brother to ask for help. He wants to be convinced not to return to one of the planets he's visited, because forever can be a very short time.

The Night of the Nickel Beer

Upon turning 40 and finding himself unable to sleep, a man takes a late-night walk through the mist and finds a bar which serves up nickel beer and tantalizes him with the promise of youth. A remembered past? A new beginning? Or a return to his wife sleeping at home?

The Night That All Time Broke Out

A couple purchases a home time converter, only to have the central timeworks plant go awry, turning a pleasant evening of decade jaunting into an annoying rewrite of history.

The Nine Billion Names of God

A cloister of Himalayan monks hire a computer programmer to design a mainframe capable of cataloguing every possible name of the Supreme Deity. Hugo winner, 2004 (retro).

None Before Me

A man devotes his life as a connoisseur to obtaining the best single piece of anything... until he develops an obsession with one of his acquisitions.

Or All the Seas with Oysters

Struck by the fact that there are never enough pins and always too many coat-hangers, a bicycle shop owner begins to speculate on the possible parallels between natural and man-made objects. Hugo winner, 1958.

Over the Line

Another 'generational starship lost in space' story. As a rite of passage, a young man asks the ship's computer the meaning of existence.

Paingod

Reluctantly appointed the universal dispenser of suffering, the 'pain god' has a revelation when he studies a few paltry mortals on a remote dust speck called Earth.

Paradise Regained

A group of escapees on a prison world aptly named Hell determine to make a home in the only livable valley on the planet.

Paxton's World

When a spacer gets marooned on a distant planet, he sets himself up as a god to the simplistic natives.

The Petrified World

A man's dreams intrude upon his experience of 'reality'.

Phoenix

After waking from an odd dream, a man struggles to understand the limits of his new "wild talent" or psi power.

The Place of the Gods

An post-holocaust tale of a shaman's son whose rite of passage is to venture to the forbidden ruins left by the long-departed gods.

The Plot is the Thing

Having withdrawn into a fantasy world of old horror movies, a woman undergoes a severe form of rehab that challenges the borders of reality. Nebula winner, 1967.

Pond Water

Scientists create an immortal super-robot named Alexander to rule the human race and who, like his namesake, possesses an insatiable thirst for conquest that extends across the stars.

The Portable Phonograph

Four men, struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic time, meet regularly to cherish memories of better times—reading from a few remaining books and listening to a few surviving recordings.

The Power of the Sentence

An English professor lecturing about the use of sentences finds his examples are taking on a life of their own.

Promises to Keep: A Science Fiction Drama

A dying spaceman whose last wish is to return to Earth to see his parents once more concocts a unique means of cheating death.

The Public Hating

A criminal is sentenced to be telepathically hated in a public stadium by fifty thousand of his peers.

Pure Gold

Bizarre story about a couple whose homebuilt sailboat spins gold off its mast on the open water.

The Racer

Auto racing in the future has turned into a blood sport.

Inspiration for the movie Death Race 2000.

Rebel

A young man is confronted by his parents who wish him to conform to their style of living. Classic story told with a twist.

Remembrance to Come

In this psychological tale, a literature professor wonders if he is seeing things when a strangely clad student turns up in his classroom and begins following him.

"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

A future society enslaved to the tyranny of the 'schedule' looks for a savior in the form of a clownish prankster who refuses to punch the state time clock. Hugo and Nebula winner, 1965.

A version of this story was produced for the NPR series 2000 X.

Restricted Area

Scientists exploring a new world are unable to account for what they find: animals, plants, and mineral structures that simply shouldn't exist!

Roller Ball Murder

The murderous sport of Rollerball has become the world's most popular sport—with Johnathan E. it's most popular champion—and although he can survive the blood-soaked brutality of the game, can he survive its corporate exploitation?

Basis for two Hollywood films, both entitled Rollerball.

The Rules of the Road

A great silver dome sits in the desert at Yucca Flats, featureless, except for an innocent-looking open entranceway. Ten military men have entered - none have returned. A civilian prepares to enter and discover if the dome is the key to the stars... or just a better mouse-trap.

The Run

A senator responsible for the nation's missile silos confronts his humanity when malcontents challenge his passage on the road.

Running Around

Dissatisfied with his life, the inventor of a time machine returns to the past to murder his father and thus pre-empt his own existence.

A Saucer of Loneliness

After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a woman explains to her rescuer how she received a message from a flying saucer, her subsequent imprisonment and interrogation by a government bent on discovering that message, and... her lifelong loneliness.

The Sentinel

In the late summer of '96 a lunar expedition exploring the great walled plain called the Mare Crisium—the sea of crises—detours to investigate a metallic glitter high an the ridge of an unclimbed peak.

This story was the basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Show Must Go On

Man built better than himself. Anything he can do, his androids can do better. So he rarely bothers to do anything anymore. Except hate. In an effort to save mankind from a long drawn-out suicide, a new android show is being produced. Hopefully this will draw men away from the Hate Bars and give them hope in the future.

Singularities Make Me Nervous

After traveling back in time via a black hole, an astronaut and his future self plan their financial freedom.

The Sky Was Full of Ships

On trial for the murder of an eminent scientist, the accused tells the jury an impossible tale of the discovery of a cave housing alien machinery.

A version of this story appeared on Beyond Tomorrow as 'Incident at Switchpath'. Yet another version was produced for television on the program Tales of Tomorrow, under the title 'Verdict From Space'.

See also 'The Machine in Shaft Ten' (Mindwebs)

The Snake

The symbolic story of a mysterious woman who visits Dr. Philips in his laboratory and seems obsessed with watching a snake eat a rat.

The Sound Machine

Klausner is a man obsessed with sound. He develops a machine which converts ultra-sonic frequencies into audible tones... with unexpected results.

The Squirrel Cage

A prisoner in a white-walled cube has no idea who his jailers are, what crime he has committed, or how long his incarceration will last.

Stair Trick

A bartender, when asked, descends the stairs behind his bar to fetch an obscure vintage of wine from his cellar. Newcomers to the bar are amazed when they discover that there are no stairs and no cellar. Nobody ever really notices a bartender.

The Star

A cleric on a deep space survey has his faith in God sorely tested when the expedition happens upon the ruins of a civilization destroyed when its parent star went nova.

A severely bastardized version of this story was produced for Family Theater.

Subjectivity

Repeated attempts at manned interstellar flight have only succeeded in the crews going mad, until the planners program the latest ship with a holo-projector capable of rendering images from the minds of the crew. Bad idea...

Summertime on Icarus

An astronaut crashed onto the night side of an asteroid in tight orbit of the sun, faces a desperate flight of terror away from the rise of the sun.

The Swimmer

A middle-aged, but youthful, man attending a party in an affluent suburb of New York decides to head home by swimming across Westchester county. His journey—from residential pool to residential pool—is a blend of realism and surrealism, of myth and symbolism, and a commentary on the relationship between wealth and happiness.

Sword Game

A bored professor of Topology meets a grubby teenage girl who claims to be a wandering gypsy fortune teller. They wander off so she can tell his fortune... and begin an adventure of their own.

Swords of Ifthan

A very short story about a man recruited into helping out a distant civilization still moldering in medievalism.

The Tank and Its Wife

A military tank, T98, serving as a prosthesis for a stroke victim, goes AWOL to visit its wife.

A Taste for Dostoevsky

A psychological tale which blends surreal stream-of-consciousness fantasy with reality.

Test

Robert Proctor was a good driver for one so young... a very good driver.

That Only a Mother

In a future plagued by radiation-induced mutations, one mother revels in her perfect and 'gifted' child.

They

A paranoiac in a mental hospital is convinced that the world around him is a construct provided solely to prevent him from realizing the ultimate truth behind existence.

To See the Invisible Man

Convicted of the crime of coldness, a man is sentenced to a year of 'invisibility', during which time no one will acknowledge his existence.

To the Dark Star

The mutual distrust and enmity among a trio of ill-matched astrophysicists sent on an expedition to observe the collapse of a dying star turn deadly when it becomes obvious one must sacrifice their life to complete the mission.

The Top

In this subtly satirical allegory of American business, Johnathan Gerber receives a memorandum to meet with his boss and an elevator pass to reach the upper levels.

Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot

One in a series of over 80 very short story puns (also known as poetic story jokes or "Feghoots") involving Ferdinand Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling through time and space, culminating with a bad pun.

Treasure Hunt

A man's consciousness is transferred into the body of an alien, that he might better search for the Egg of Beauty... and of Life and Death. The Egg of the Firebird.

Twenty-Four Letters from Underneath the Earth

A woman discovers an unused tunnel designed to shuttle letters between Complexes - carefully controlled and isolated social environments of roughly 150 people probably located beneath the Preseli Hills in North Wales. Story by Hilary Bailey.

The Unfinished

Two space explorers land on a remote jungle planet where they confront hostile natives.

The Unremembered

A citizen in a society of the artificially rejuvenated experiences discontent.

The Valley of Echoes

Three men explore the surface of Mars, searching for evidence of a legendary ancient civilization.

The Veldt

A couple purchase a holo-theater to keep their son and daughter amused, but the recreation of the sweltering African savannah the children concoct is anything but amusing...

See also The House on Chimney Pot Lane (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)

One of Bradbury's most popular stories, versions appeared on Dimension X, Bradbury 13, CBC Playhouse, X Minus One, and the BBC.

The Vertical Ladder

A young man tries to impress a young woman by accepting a dare to climb a ladder extending high above the ground along the outside of a gasometer.

A Walk in the Dark

A hard-bitten engineer finishing up a contract on a remote colony planet has his pragmatism put to the test when he must face a long walk through a wilderness reported to be the domain of a nameless horror.

Wasted on the Young

A future social system in which the young, up until age 30, are allowed to live at society's expense, charging any extravagance they desire to the state, after which they must repay that luxury with years of service.

The Weapon

A scientist working on WMD is confronted with an unusual form of protest from a concerned citizen.

Webster

A lonely spinster conjures up a lover out of the dictionary, but he doesn't quite live up to her expectations.

Weep No More, Old Lady

A prodigious "brain child" takes part in a secret government program to test the limits of mental development.

What Really Caused the Energy Crisis

A physics professor at a local university explains to a doubting class of freshmen what caused the energy crisis in the latter half of the Seventies. He presupposes that the formula E=mc2 could be reversed and was extensively used by the military to create super-dense plating... Was he just a crazy old professor waiting to retire?

When It Changed

After six centuries, the Men have returned. And the technologically advanced, all-female population of the former Earth colony are not entirely happy about it. Told by Carol Cowan. Nebula winner and Hugo nominated, 1973.

When We Went to See the End of the World

Couples who regularly party with each other while civilization crumbles around them find novelty in traveling through time to see the end of the world.

The Winner

The Guardian is combination radio transmitter/receiver. The receiver is surgically implanted into the body of a prisoner and induces incredible pain if the prisoner moves more than 150 yards from the transmitter. Escape is impossible... but that doesn't stop prisoners from making the attempt.

Winter Housekeeping

What would it be like if old age were a substance that permeates the air, settles like dust around oneself, enters the body when one inhales, and, with proper breathing, can be exhaled as well?

The Word

After their ship is forced to make an emergency landing for repairs and additional food, 3 crew members venture forth to observe the hideous, indigenous population. With every step, they are painfully aware they are violating regulations... but nevertheless feel compelled to push on and examine the locals more closely.

The Worm

The miller and his dog are the only ones left in Thompson Valley. The grist mill has stood for over 200 years, but now, nature is slowly taking the valley back from the farmers and millers who once lived there.

Young Girl at an Open Half-Door

A newly installed, state-of-the-art, intrusion-detection system at an art gallery intermittently registers a disturbance. By the time a guard can get to the gallery where the disturbance originates, the signal has returned to normal.

Note: "Young Woman at an Open Half-Door" is the title of a painting (oil on canvas) from the workshop of Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn) circa 1645. It is currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The following actors and actresses are credited in these programs. If anyone has information about the correct spelling of these names, please let me know!

• Allen, Rhonda
• Armandroff, Mary
• Black, Harvey K.
• Clotter, Linda
• Cowan, Carol - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Cornute, Benita
• Craig, David
• Crust, Luis D.
• Day, Trisha
• DeMoon, Delores
• Eyes, Star
• Fitts, Jay Meredith - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Fleming, Jim - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Frumkin, Kerry
• Gaylord, Paul
• Hanson, Michael - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Hanson, Ralph
• Hanson, Steven Elliot
• Lynch, Danny
• Murphy, Rick
• Ohst, Ken - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Paxton, Ward
• Pollian, Becca
• Popsey, L.A.
• Potter, Alisha
• Rattner, Mindy
• Roberts, Cliff - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Schmidt, Karl - confirmed by WHA Radio
• Strawsbough, Louise
• Van Cleef, Marty
• Walker, Dolores

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