Project Gutenberg 2008-01-07 Public domain in the USA. 213 Mason, David 1924 1974 Brotman, Adolph E. Something Will Turn Up Produced by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Something Will Turn Up" by David Mason is a science fiction short story written in the early 1960s. The narrative revolves around a quirky issue with a television set that displays images upside down, leading to a humorous and bizarre interaction between the owner, Stanley Rapp, and a young repairman. The story explores themes of absurdity and the blurred lines between technology and the supernatural. In this entertaining tale, Stanley Rapp calls a repairman to fix his television, which has mysteriously been showing everything upside down. As they discuss the peculiar situation, the repairman, who fancies himself a poet and a magician, decides to attempt some unconventional magic to solve the problem. After a whimsical and suspenseful effort involving a bizarre incantation, the television's images are eventually restored to the right side up, but not without unexpected consequences, as the repairman's actions may have altered something elsewhere. The story playfully highlights the intersection of everyday life and the surreal, leaving readers with a sense of humor and wonder about the possibilities of technology and magic. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 87.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Fantasy fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour 38668 2025-06-10T06:37:57.746250 text/html 34901 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 144638 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 225318 2025-06-10T06:38:03.221241 application/epub+zip 223973 2025-06-10T06:38:00.879208 application/epub+zip 166212 2025-06-10T06:37:59.602216 application/epub+zip 277588 2025-06-10T06:38:04.864206 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 239268 2025-06-10T06:38:02.430216 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154166 2022-09-11T08:45:00.809431 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 32505 2025-06-10T06:37:57.485248 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32406 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12415 2008-01-07T08:13:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18928 2025-06-10T06:38:04.997210 application/rdf+xml 15123 2025-06-10T06:38:00.167239 image/jpeg 4012 2025-06-10T06:37:59.902223 image/jpeg 229173 2025-06-10T06:37:57.757265 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog