I had something similar, except in my own reading the whole neighborhood was intact; humanity had just vanished and this fully automated house and community just continued working in perpetuity for a human population that had simply ceased to exist. Nuclear annihilation makes perfect sense within the text of the story, but there was something inherently more sinister about my interpretation. I chalk it up to my youth.
i had a different interpretation of the story in my head. this is way darker, more industrial, and grimdark. i saw sort of light futuristic 1950s but in a devestated city with no living people. the surviving house more jetsons less industrial nightmarehouse
I've seen another version with a lot more pastel, and instead of the people being ash in their beds they're blast-shadows burned in to the pastel walls.
poof there goes my own imagining of this world as a nuked retro-50s atompunk Fallout society
I had something similar, except in my own reading the whole neighborhood was intact; humanity had just vanished and this fully automated house and community just continued working in perpetuity for a human population that had simply ceased to exist. Nuclear annihilation makes perfect sense within the text of the story, but there was something inherently more sinister about my interpretation. I chalk it up to my youth.
now i wish i had read it when i was a child because i probably would have had a year worth of weird dreams from it.
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i had a different interpretation of the story in my head. this is way darker, more industrial, and grimdark. i saw sort of light futuristic 1950s but in a devestated city with no living people. the surviving house more jetsons less industrial nightmarehouse
I've seen another version with a lot more pastel, and instead of the people being ash in their beds they're blast-shadows burned in to the pastel walls.