Sci- Fi Short Story: “A Little Journey ” by Ray Bradbury

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A LITTLE JOURNEYBy Ray Bradbury

She’d paid good money to see the inevitable …
and then had to work to make it happen!

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There were two important things—one, that she was very old; two, that Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn’t he patted her hand and said: “Mrs. Bellowes, we’ll take off into space in my rocket, and go to find Him together.”

And that was how it was going to be. Oh, this wasn’t like any other gro...