"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about an alone house that stands intact in a California city that is otherwise obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed by a fire caused by a windstorm. First published in 1950 about future catastrophes in two different versions in two separate publications, a one-page short story in Collier's magazine and a chapter of the fix-up novel The Martian Chronicles, the author regarded it as "the one story that represents the essence of Ray Bradbury. Bradbury's foresight in recognizing the potential for the complete self-destruction of humans by nuclear war in the work was recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board in conjunction with awarding him a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 2007 that noted, "While time has quelled the likelihood of total annihilation, Bradbury was a lone voice among his contemporaries in contemplating the potentialities of such horrors. The author considered the short story as the only one in The Martian Chronicles as a work of science fiction.
The answer to the first blank above would be ''decisiveness'' and the other would be "unscathed". Possessing strong resolve or decisiveness is sometimes needed to escape unharmed or unscathed during stressful times or situations.
