Nobody's Dog

Sully Marsh has one rule about moving: never unpack the box marked MISC.

House five, a new town, the same old rule. If you never unpack the things you'd miss, you never have to pack them again.

Then, on his first day in Ashby Falls, Sully sees a scruffy stray dog with one white sock trotting down the sidewalk beside a delivery robot. The robot is Nine, a retired Swiftly unit with six wheels, one squeaky, and a faded orange bicycle flag. Swiftly is long gone. Nine still runs its forty-stop rou...