Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
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- It sure looked like one but I didn’t hear anything crash. Did you?
- All I heard was a roar.
- Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front-porch gliders, hopscotch, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice-cream vendor.
- What was that honey?
- I guess it was a meteor or something, honey. Came awfully a little too close, didn’t it?
- Too close for my money! Much too close.
- At the sound of the roar and the flash of the light, it will be precisely six-forty-three p.m. on Maple Street.
- Maple Street. Six-forty-four p.m. on a late September evening. (pauses) Maple Street in the last calm and reflective moment…before the monsters came!
- Operator, operator! Something’s wrong with the phone operator.
- What was that? A meteor?
- Steve the power is off and it’s not working. I was trying to make soup on the stove but the stove isn’t working.
- The radio won’t work.
- Electricity won’t work.
- My radio’s gone dead.
- The power mower won’t work.
- The phone won’t work.
- I’m going to cut through the backyard to see if the power is still working on Floral Street. I’ll be back!
- I’ll try to go downtown to get this straightened out.
- Is it out of gas?
- No, I just filled the gas up.
- Why not?
- They don't want you to.
- Who doesn't want us to go?
- Steve, we should just walk downtown.
- Them!
- Okay let’s go Charlie.
- Mr. Brand, you better not.
- What do you mean them?
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- Whatever was in that thing that came by overhead. They don't want us to leave and that's why they shut everything off.
- Sally you better get that boy of yours to bed! He has read way too many comic books or something.
- Please don’t leave Mr. Brand. You might not even be able to get to town! It was that way in the story. Only the people that the monsters sent down that look like humans could leave.
- Tommy come over here and please stop that kind of talk.
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