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Subject: Re: Looking for obscure juveniles
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From: William M. York <York@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>

    Date: 19 Apr 85 21:53:37 GMT
    From: olivee!gnome@topaz.arpa (Gary Traveis)

    How about a short story called The House.  It is about a futuristic
    house on the outskirts of a city that has been recently nuked.  One
    of the things I remember was the little robotic mice that tried to
    keep the inside of the house clean as it started to fall apart.  (no
    mention of where it got it's power from...)

    If you have ever read it - I'd love to find it again.

I believe that the story you are referring to is "There Will Come Soft
Rains", by Ray Bradbury.  I think that it is included in "The Martian
Chronicles", although my library is unavailable for confirmation.  My
strongest memory of the story is the "inverse" shadow (white on black
background) on the side of the house of a boy and a girl and a ball in
mid-air left by the initial flash of the explosion.