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

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.

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.

In a time fraught with fear surrounding school shootings, a parent struggles to hone her anxiety into a productive tool for protecting her children. But after devoting a decade of her life to developing a quantum simulation program, she learns that the answer she has been seeking is far simpler than she could have ever guessed. How does an anxious parent reconcile their desire to protect their children with the risks of interfering with the simulation of the known world? That is the question the narrator seeks to answer, confronting the inadequacy of fear and preparation in a time of bone-chilling crisis.