01 January - the drowning at Los Gatos

How would God respond to making a mistake? Would planets collide or mountains slide into the sea? Or would the ledger of all life simply remain out kilter until a series of small events forced that ledger back into balance again? It's probably the latter. After all, you don't want to call attention to your mistakes if you're an all-powerful being.

In the drowning at Los Gatos, two children find themselves in circumstances where death is likely. The first child has fallen down an abandoned well and the second is in a plane that is about to crash. God must choose which child will live, which will die, and hope that no mistake is made.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. First, we are here and then we are not.