I liked it.
I found my very first Bradbury book in the Dover, NH public library when I was 10 years old: Halloween Tree. It had all the classic Bradbury elements put into a kids' book. Childhood, innocence, innocence lost, and that fuzzy, wonderful border between the everyday world around us and the absolutely fantastic. Bradbury had a knack for showing how thin the veneer really is between the mundane and the magical.
Keep in mind that it is a tall order to attempt to intentionally orbit someone like Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked this Way Comes,The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, etc.). The Illustrated Man is possibly The. Greatest. Short. Story. Collection. Ever.
If you've never read it, be ready for a real pleasure.
So many of Bradbury's tales involve a journey towards a particular Fate while at the same time showing us how we are (often magically) not necessarily resigned to that fate. I thought this story very much fit that mold. I enjoyed the protagonist's slow acceptance of the magical 'Ray' and the final depiction of the group of carnies gathering to evoke magic together- enough to imbue life. And that was another one of Bradbury's gifts- so often the deepest, strongest magic is in the everyday characters in his stories.
Nice job, Mr. Milosevic.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. Thomas Merton