Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed by Ray Bradbury is a short story about living on Mars. Similarly, Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed by Micheal McDonough is a radio play adapted from the short story. The short story and the radio play deal with plot, character, and mood with some similarities, but they also have a few differences. In the short story, the events are presented by dialogue, narration, description, chronological order, and a flash-forward at the end to 5 years later. They used conference to explain how they communicate with each other. They use chronological order to keep it in line. In the radio play the events are presented by dialogue, and sound effects. They did this because the sound effects make it sound more interesting. In