A Martian Comes to Stay

<br> Peter is staying with his grandmother when a Martian knocks on the door and asks for a spanner to mend his spaceship. But the spaceship takes off without him and Peter and his grandmother are left with a house guest. --summary, {{OCLC|60236374}} on the 1995 chapbook

Evidently original to the 1984 collection. Uninvited Ghosts and Other Stories lists previous publications of three stories among eight, not this one, and the 1st ed. front jacket flap blurbs "five of them new, three previously published in anthologies" (1984 Heinemann ed. previewed at Open Library). British Library record {{BL|010719302}} mistakenly notes this story published in Jubilee Jackanory (BBC, 1977). That anthology contains a different story by Lively; WorldCat {{OCLC|7442671}} provides a list of contents.