There Will Come Soft Rains | Setting
The setting of "There Will Come Soft Rains" is very precisely stated in the opening of the story. It is the morning of August 4, 2026, and the locale is Allendale, California. Depicting the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war, the entire story takes place over the course one day in a single family home, deserted and ash-covered but still technologically intact.
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