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The Vacation

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 6, Adult
Page count: 8
Categories: Fantasy, Magic

Author

Ray
Bradbury

Appeared in

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, 7: Magical Wishes

Story Summary

With an idle wish to change a corrupt world, a man makes everyone but his family vanish, then worries that his son and daughter might wish to travel on without parents.