Science Fiction Short Story ID Help

[JohnM]

@LurkMeister

“Or the Grasses Grow” by Avram Davidson

The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection - Avram Davidson - Google Books

I remembered reading the same story, and after some extensive Google-Fu I tracked it down. Here’s the publication history from the ISFDB: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46046

Thank you! Glad to know it wasn’t an invented memory. I knew Ropers would come through.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

You can always count on the Straight Rope Message Board!

[Darren_Garrison]

@Wendell_Wagner

I can’t parse it to mean anything clear.

Okay, a visual aid.

[Dale_Sams]

@Wendell_Wagner

I can’t parse it to mean anything clear.

Yeah that was my bad. Sorry.

[JohnM]

@JohnM

Thank you! Glad to know it wasn’t an invented memory. I knew Ropers would come through.

It was the rain, and the teleprompter was hard to read…

[Wendell_Wagner]

Surprisingly, the story was not first published during the New Wave period but in 1958:

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46046