In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.

A man trying to find meaning in life has an affair with a girl. He struggles with whether he should tell his wife.

A man who goes through life with visions of people from other time periods must answer the question of his purpose with only a cryptic computer printout to guide him.

An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.

In an apocalyptic future where Earth has been ravaged, a lonely man studies the stars until, one day, they come to him.

A mysterious man able to travel through time and space on a whim has a simple job: he must do one good deed every day. What exactly a "good deed" is, however, remains unclear; the bolder his interference becomes, the less sure he is that he's leaving the world better off.

A man receives a call in the middle of the night and learns that his ex-girlfriend has committed suicide. He spirals into reflection about the woman and their relationship.

Later in life, a man recalls a man in a pinstripe suit from his synagogue whom he, as a boy, seemed to have seen everywhere.