<P> "All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in the March 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . </P> <P> The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the Sun is visible for only one hour every seven years . However, in the movie, the sun only came out for an hour every 9 years . (This story was written before Mariner 2 discovered that the surface temperature on Venus is higher than the boiling point of water .) </P> <P> One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier, and she is the only one in her class to remember sunshine, since the Sun shone regularly on Earth . She describes the Sun as "a penny", or "like a fire in the stove", and relays in a poem to the class that "I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour". The other children, being too young ever to have seen it themselves, do not believe her . The other students bully and ostracize her, and just before the sun comes out, they lock her in a closet down a tunnel . </P> <P> As the Sun is about to appear, their teacher arrives to take the class outside to enjoy their one hour of sunshine and, in their astonishment and joy, they all forget about Margot . They run, play, skip, jump, and prance about, savoring every second of their newly found freedom . "It's much better than sun lamps!" one of them cries . </P>

Short story all summer in a day by ray bradbury