Sounds interesting. If you want an alternative take on the same concept, check out Drew Magary’s The Postmortal.

I’m so sorry to hear about your father. I found giving my father’s eulogy last year to be very cathartic - I hope it brings you the same peace that mine did for me.

Only because you specifically said funny is okay:

How about starting it off, without preamble or explanation, with a Vogon poetry reading.

82 million degrees, that’s why they call him Mister Fahrenheit

Child-me loved Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. I was so excited to see it as a movie, The Secret of NIMH, but horrified that they changed the character’s name to Mrs. Brisby. Adult-me realizes there was probably some sort of trademark concern over the name, but still… worst change ever. Still mad.

Are the drones remotely piloted by Amazon employees, or are they autonomous?

The mutant bear in Annihilation is pretty good.

Dickens published most of his novels in serial format, releasing them in sections at a time. Anticipation would build and crowds would clamor as the release of each new serial drew near. The Pickwick Papers’ final installment was printed 100 times more than its first.

> In at least two cases, serial fiction sparked riots. In 1841, a riot erupted in New York as avid readers awaited the fate of little Nell in Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shoppe. And the following year, Parisian readers rioted to find out the ending of a particularly suspenseful episode of Eugene Sue's The Mysteries of Paris.

https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/charles-dickens-show-stealing-entrance-to-serial-fiction

Harry Potter may be more popular than most other books, but I don’t think there have been any Potter riots.

Over time, the serial format fell by the wayside. Stephen King famously experimented with it when he released The Green Mile; it was originally published in six parts.

Here’s a way you can deal with your widget placement issue:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/transparent-widget-twid/id1533516754

(I haven’t used this particular one - there are many similar options and this is just the first that came up in a quick search)

Dateline: FLORISSANT, Mo.

You can’t make this stuff up.