What would you do if you are offered a way to switch off your children for a while and it won't cost you anything too valuable? If you are a tired to her bones housewife who can never finish her work because it gets undone, you may decide to.

Bujold's first science fiction story is charming. I do not usually like comic science fiction, mainly because not too many people can pull them off. But here it works. ( )

A housewife is about to go nuts when an alien, needing ammonia shows up at her door. Funny. ( )