I read this a while ago, before I was on Site Crit, so I think I'm gonna come back here and explain why I downvoted
Right off the bat, I will say that this was well written. The rationale behind my downvote stemmed from the way that this story was told for the most part, specifically the way that the twist was handled.
As far as I can tell, we used to think it convinced you that it was your son until we realized that it actually superimposed (I guess that's the right word?) itself with your child such that it was them. You lost a child and were only left with the box. That's all well and good, except that I find myself having practical concerns with the execution.
Firstly, I get why the twist was preserved for the discovery addendum, but the text of the document itself feels deliberately written in a way that would have worked for both a memetic and a physically manipulative entity. I respect that the language was chosen carefully to do this, but it breaks my suspension of disbelief at the sheer luck that the only thing that changed since 1994 was the blurb at the end and the crossing out of Euclid-nuntii as the anomaly class.
I also was personally not a fan of your choice to make it frustratingly unclear as to what the box was actually doing to people. Just one more sentence could have clarified it more, and thus let the reader develop their own fridge logic to be horrified by, but instead, I spent more time trying to rationalize out what it is actually doing as opposed to being horrified by those actions.
Lastly, I concur with Alan in that it stretched the believability of this piece to assume that the box was out there chipping teeth and cutting phone lines, and the document was rather unclear as to how it actually accomplished those things.
The culmination of these problems led me to be more frustrated than entertained, unfortunately.
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