Kayla stared up at the sky, laying on the

Kayla stared up at the sky, laying on the roof of her farmhouse. Hundreds of thoughts swarmed her head, such as "Why is that one star huge and green?"

Am I imagining things? Does it have a tail? Kayla remembered Uncle Wyatt telling her about comets. People used to fear them. Now out there a tiny robot had landed on one.

And they'd lost it. I guess the comet was happy, like a little puppy wagging its little tail. Or it didn't like the robot landing on its back and shook it off. Kayla thought on it

for a while, but then decided she needed some different reading material. This storybook was just a little too weird. So she browsed Amazon for a new book on celestial fairies,

passing over anything written by a middle-aged white woman who was into new-age spirituality. Sadly, this greatly slimmed her reading pool, so she opted for a puzzle book instead.

She did however slip a secret invitation to the full puzzle to anybody who was able to see it on the puzzle's box. It took them to a website where the Proper Invocation of an Angel

would be theirs with just three easy down payments of $500 per month and a po boy down at the Smoke'n'Bones BBQ over on Mandrill Ave. Dr. Kathy Pulaski sipped her chicken soup and

She brought the door view up in her mindspace. There didn't appear to be anybody at the door. The knock came again. "Mrs. Pulaski, please open the door," the voice said. She drew a

Glock & fired 3 carefully spaced shots through the door. Trembling, she opened it to find the DoorDash guy, a shortish dude, mortally wounded. To her relief, the pizza was face up!