So what do you folks think of the short story?
I just reread it & find it rather spooky, especially--highlight for spoilers:
the way the children just vanish at the end. It isn't clear whether or not there is anyone waiting for them in the other world/dimension that they manage to reach. In fact, it seems otherwise since the guy who sent the boxes back "waited and waited" and didn't get results. Surely two children from the past would have counted?
It's also quite interesting that a number of short stories from the time period seem to play on the idea that children are essentially alien and (in some cases) rather scary & that adult control over the world is a fragile matter.
The world might, at any moment, shift into another paradigm out of our control, and it might be our own children that cause this. Wonder what was happening that inspired that particular brand of worry?
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