Jack-in-the-Box
by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury has been a breaker of traditions and the maker of new patterns for the start story. This is demonstrated once again in this quite different sort of tale, written early in his career, in that period when children and the ways of children were still uppermost in his thoughts. Perhaps this is not a fantasy in the sense that it contains nothing really supernatural. But it is a story of a child’s psychology, of a viewpoint, logical in itself, but utterly out-of-this-world nonetheless.
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