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Zero Hour

By Ray Bradbury
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Publisher Description

Mink and the neighborhood kids are hard at work outside all day, playing a game called Invasion. Or at least that's what her mom thinks. Throughout the day, the mother continues to have strange encounters with Mink as she talks about her friend, Drill.


Classic Short Story by Ray Bradbury, the master of science fiction whose imaginative and lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America.

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3.5
“A very short story by Ray Bradbury who imagined things we have now (audio visuals) or things which come close to. Actually not much is told, but enough to let your imagination carry you away.”
“Ohh well, at first, it’s kind of cute.. kids running around, playing some made-up game. But then it slowly turns into something way more chilling. It’s this quiet warning about how adults tend to brush off what kids are doing as “just play,” without really paying attention. Bradbury really leans into that.. how easy it is to miss the signs that something deeper, maybe even dangerous, is going on. In the story, the kids are playing what seems like a regular game… until it turns out they’re actually helping aliens invade Earth. No joke. What hits hard is how believable it feels. It’s not just about aliens.. it’s also about how easily kids (and honestly, people in general) can get pulled into things they don’t fully understand. It makes you think about how quick we are to trust everything’s fine just because it looks fine on the surface. So yeah, it starts off feeling harmless, but it definitely leaves you with that uneasy feeling. Like: maybe pay more attention next time, because what looks innocent might end up being something you can’t take back.”

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