I had to stop my niece from throwing dumbbells across the room. I told her that someone could get hurt and how one of the wooden cabinets on the other side of the bed had already been smashed in. My brother said how it was easier to avoid hitting people than objects nearby.

We had just pulled off a bank heist not by robbing the bank, but by stealing the cargo from another group. After a lengthy car chase, we found a place to lay low near the airport. However the authorities had caught on to our location just moments after I realized my accomplice was driving the same car as the one he used to carry out the heist that sent him to jail 10 years ago.

We were occupying a store selling glass art because we believed that they were using AI to create their works. We had spent the better half of the afternoon standing around in their shop until it was time to close. On my way home I saw a large block of exhibition tents set up by the waterfront and people eating at the tables under them.

I didn’t want to keep waiting for everyone else to get ready so I headed out the door early. A few people wanted to stop by the doctors office when we passed and I went on without them, reasoning that if I wasn’t going to wait earlier, then I shouldn’t wait now.

We took the elevator to the fifth floor and found ourselves on top of a sandstone castle. The area was set up like a puzzle in a 3D platformer: on one wing was a giant typewriter and on the other there was an oversized lever. There was an inscription on the wall about needing to find a book about books to open the way forwards.

A border services officer was locked out of his computer because their facial recognition systems were malfunctioning. One of his coworkers had decided to feed additional training data of “green mammals” to the algorithm.

The air was noticeably cooler when I walked down the stairs from my room. The staircase itself ended abruptly and I nearly fell to the floor half a storey below. I saw my parents cooking some crab legs in the kitchen and thought about how much a meal cost.

I was called into the dimly lit room when I saw the human-sized sculpture of a contorted face. The bronze statue had a chin that was twisted to one side and sunk inwards. I was invited to help fix the piece in lieu of my other duties and I agreed without really know what that entailed. Moments later I felt my own eyes started to droop as I struggled to stay awake.

It was Friday and the only thing I had left to do was to take some weekly measurements in the lab. I was tasked with recording the direction of the flow of water in one of our model pools. The model simulated the interaction between ocean currents and the coastlines of islands.

I woke up in my room but something was off about it. There was an extra bed by the window and some children’s clothing on it. I walked towards the stairs and saw that the living room was now a large open area and none of the furniture seemed familiar. I decided to lay down on the sofa and started watching a livestream playing on my phone. My mom came down the stairs in sportswear.