Soldiers surround the area and shout at the humans to please step out of the line of fire. A tank raises its turret and somebody is shouting something about surrendering and then the aliens just aren't there anymore.

Thus, we know that women were not invisible to Bradbury when he wrote the introduction, only wives who wrote stories with their husbands.

a sliver of sunlight threatening the sky / so I don't have much time before / I lose the animal inside