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Chapter 1
“Did you hear about the lottery?” Chris’s wife Christina didn’t hear him, or at least she didn’t acknowledge what he had said. He repeated himself, “Hey Christina, did you hear about the lottery?” She...
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Chapter 2
Chris stood in line at the gas station again, fuzzy-faced and fuzzy-minded. His youngest son Gideon had been awake from midnight to two, demanding banana after banana, until the supply was exhausted...
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Chapter 3
“DADDY! DADDY! DADDY! DADDY! DAAAAAAD! DAAAAAAADDY!” For the sixth time that hour, Chris pushed away from his desk and walked across the house to the boys’ playroom. Three-year-old Gabriel’s...
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Chapter 4
It had been six weeks since Chris won over half a billion dollars in the lottery, and contrary to what you might expect, his life hadn’t changed at all. He still drove the same car, lived in the same...
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Chapter 5
“Dearest Katherine, You and your family are cordially invited to a life-changing event. A towncar and driver will be waiting in front of your house on the morning of Friday, February 17. You’ll be back...
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Chapter 6
Snow falls on a massive lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. People call it a cabin because the exterior walls are shaped like logs, but really, it’s a mansion: ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and an...
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Chapter 7
*ting* *ting* *ting* *ting* Chris stood in front of the fireplace and tapped on his glass with a spoon. “Can I have everyone’s attention?” Tom usually had the initiative to say what everyone was...
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Chapter 8
Henry’s cell phone rings late on a February night. He sets down his wineglass, a stemless burgundy sphere, and pauses the stereo system pumping almost imperceptible eurosynth along the walls of his...
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Chapter 9
10 years have passed. Nuclear war. Nuclear winter. Money is meaningless. Life is suffering. The End
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