Philip K. Dick : Beyond the Door
What goes on behind the closed door of a cuckoo clock while it waits to come out?

Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect.