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    Let's Play Detective: Help finding an older horror/science fiction short story?

    Discussion in 'Discussion of Published Works' started by Kingtype, Mar 16, 2017.

    OKAY!

    So, some friends on another site have been looking crazy for a short story somebody wrote a long time ago. Here is the general information I have.

    They thought Stephen King wrote it but scanning his list of shorts they came up empty. Ray Bradbury came up to, but nobody is sure.

    Here is the info that someone provided

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    Synopsis - A boy is home from school after finding out from the radio that his school has been cancelled due to a snow storm. His mother goes to work and leave him at home alone. After a while, he hears more cancellations on the radio but it is strange because they are actual buildings from within the city that he lives in. When he hears his mother's building being "cancelled", he tries to call but gets an out of order signal. He then calls his best friend who lives closer to the city and begins a conversation. At one point, the other boy goes quiet. When the first boy asks what is wrong, the other boy becomes frightened and tells the first that there are "pieces of the city that are missing". That is when the first boy hears the radio announcer say that his friend's house has been "cancelled". The line goes dead. The boy, completely frightened at this point, grabs a family photo and clutches it on his bed as he waits for the music on the radio to end.

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    The people who mentioned having read it one said he read it thirty years ago and the other mentioned reading it in the 90s

    Only two people who were talking on this other thread had a clear memory of the story. I've also posted about it on reddit.

    Any information would help :)

     
    Last edited: Mar 16, 2017

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