A user tries to wrap her head around all the rules and regulations concerning simulation.

When an alien disguised as a little boy walks into a diner to tell the waitress for the thousandth time that the world will end tomorrow, she surprises him with a new reaction; She chooses to live her life to the fullest.

A man considers the possibility of multiple realities, and creates possible scenarios for how his life could have turned out; including one where he is a famous football player, another where he's a stay-at-home dad caring for a daughter who has Down Syndrome, and another where she doesn't.

Two people die of drug overdose and flu and never meet each other, never get married, and never live their seedy, disappointing lives.

An alternate universe where all that was improbable begins to happen a lot. A black female narrator navigates the ever crumbling New York City in this new world order.