Malltown

Grippy Factor Peggy investigates a Burble in Malltown. A novella of the near future with robots and cake.

Pets and knitting and nutrient-dense chocolate cake for dinner. G-rated, hopeful, solarpunk. Life in a world without work.
When Petunia-Glass discovers an attempted kidnapping from her homepod she calls the local Grippy Factor to investigate.

Can Peggy solve the case? Does Peggy's Robot have anything to do with it? Was there an attempted kidnapping or did the sheep burp? Could the culprit be in a faction of hardline knitters among the seniors?