Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction, Adventure

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Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead – wrote the editor of Fantastic Universe in January, 1954, blurbing this tale – that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We’re sure that after reading it you’ll give cuckoo clocks more respect. But certainly respects the clock. She went to it after the little bird came out to do his thing. She bent over the little door, her lips close to the wood. Do you hear me? she whispered. I think you’re the most wonderful cuckoo in the world. She paused, embarrassed. I hope you’ll like it here. You’ve got to know he did… .