Deep Dive

I chose a pop up that said "Deep Dive", and found myself puzzled to see a screen that simply said "whose life do you want?"

A cursor flashed before me, waiting, impatiently.

Beneath the box were several more settings, and the important instruction "set the person's name you wish to become".

I thought about it for a moment, but did not enter a name. There was a wooshing sound, and I found myself headed downstairs for breakfast.

It appeared my father had left already, but my sisters were sitting around the table.

"Where's mom?" I asked. But my sisters did not know. More strange: they all seemed to be getting along this morning. All three of them.

Looking down , I found a strange machine on my wrist. I flicked it, finding settings to pause, to replay, and even to change the scenario. It had to be the Deep Dive mechanism, I deduced.

"You loser, it's time for school," your oldest sister said, "get going."

You hit pause.

Then you just had to decide what to do...