Jeffers, telling him Alice is seriously ill with pneumonia David rushes home, and a frightened Alice tells him, "It was the baby again". On his sixth day away he receives an emergency phone call from Dr. Jeffers, explains that it is not unusual for some women to experience such feelings after the birth of a child-especially in Alice's case, as she almost died of complications of a Caesarean section during delivery.ĭavid leaves for a business trip in Chicago and is gone for a few days. She expresses her fears to her husband, who dismisses them and tries to comfort her. It was collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected in the anthologies The October Country, The Autumn People, The Small Assassin, The Stories of Ray Bradbury and The Vintage Bradbury.ĭavid and Alice Leiber are a happily married couple living in Los Angeles, but when Alice gives birth to a healthy baby boy, she fears the baby is somehow abnormal and will kill her. It was first published in the November, 1946 issue of Dime Mystery. "The Small Assassin" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. "The Small Assassin" was the cover story in the November 1946 issue of Dime Mystery.
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