Read these if you like Alien Creatures
Listing 2 stories.
In the near future, a young mother leaves behind a book for her daughter before she embarks on her space journey to the outer solar system in an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial creatures. Sections from her book are interspersed with her husband's verbal recollections of their love story, which he addresses to their young daughter.
A girl's father goes missing when he goes to visit an abandoned house that is surrounded by grass and large vegetables despite being in the dust bowl.