A Sound of Thunder - a short story on time travel dino hunting by Ray Bradbury

"The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:

TIME SAFARI, INC.
SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.
YOU NAME THE ANIMAL.
WE TAKE YOU THERE.
YOU SHOOT IT.

Warm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat; he swallowed and pushed it down. The muscles around his mouth formed a smile as he put his hand slowly out upon the air, and in that hand waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the man behind the desk.

'Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?'" (full story at link)


(excerpted from Ray Bradbury, "A Sound of Thunder," in R is for Rocket, (New York: Doubleday, 1952))
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