Aphelion

This one got the "Twilight Zone" theme music going in my head . . .

Depressing??? not at all, rather funny, every dayish, and if I do say, a branch from a biblical line.

Dayish? Explain, please?

I don't think there should have been a space between "every" and "dayish". That would have made it clear that the poster meant that the story was, I don't know, routine? Or "slice of life"? It depicted extraordinary events impinging on otherwise dull lives, and horrific (from the viewpoint of the dead Earthmen) consequences covered up to avoid trouble.