Husband Fakes Coma to Elope; I Livestream His Mars Launch

After I learned my husband had been in a car accident and become a vegetative patient, I immediately signed him up for the Mars One-Way Pioneer Program. Because while I was at home, choking back my grief as I packed the clothes he'd need for the hospital, his old backup phone suddenly synced a new voice message. The sender was that coquettish little assistant of his, Summer Fox. "Ervin, I've already taken care of things with the doctor. You'll just have to bear with it a while and play vegetable in that hospital bed."