A short story worth your while. A story that lives through time.

There are not many things that gives up the time period when Bradbury wrote it. These are small hints by the way the dialog is written and society depicted, but it can be written off to peculiarities of some alternative fashion and slang existing in alternative reality or simply in future.

The story makes you think, and the more you think the greater it becomes. By the time you get all the hits and understand what will happen, you realize that this might as well be some horror story. But what makes it horror-ish? It is the realization that this world could as well be ours, though not literary, but as metaphor. A metaphor for our technology and the way it affects our daily life.

The best part is that story doesn't end with last words in last page. You find your thoughts drifting back to story, understanding more of it, getting new hints. It twists your world view in some way. Is it good or bad? That is up to you to decide.