Gloria’s Life is 88.3% Predictable

It’s a good score. Most parents would love it if their teenager was at 88.3%. Gloria makes smart choices, avoids unnecessary risks, and reaps the rewards of the predictability system. But that system—the one her dad built—also has its flaws, the biggest being the inability to track people living off-grid, like the stranger who killed her mother.

Gloria simply wants to enjoy her last summer before college, to have a little fun for once, but a series of unpredictable events cause a steep and unacceptable drop in her percentage. If she wants to go to college, she’ll need to get her score back up, and fast.

In theory, the newly released 24-hr Futurecast should help her make predictable choices. Instead, her timeline shows her disintegrating on the way to work tomorrow. Must be a bug. If she was going to dissolve into thin air, it would register as more than a harmless alert. She can’t show her dad, or he’ll make her stay home, which would lower hers and her coworkers’ scores. Besides, she’s inexplicably curious about what’s waiting on the other side of the static.

Turns out it’s not a what, but a who.

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