[PW] Re: looking for a short sci fi story

[Dan Goodman]

Robert Sullivan wrote:
>>>        Well, it's not about a composer but it is (kinda) sci-fi.  And it IS
>>> the shortest short story ever written--its by Hemingway:
>> No, as far as I can tell, it's by our old pal Anonymous, certainly not by Ernie.
>>
>>>                 The last man in the world was alone in a room.  There
>>>                  was a knock at the door.
>> In the classic version, it's "sat" not "was" and "on the door" not "at
>> the door."
> 
> Sounds like "Knock" by Fredric Brown.
> 
> <http://www.answers.com/topic/knock-short-story>
> 
It's incorporated into "Knock" -- but that part of the story isn't by Brown.

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