Love Always Beats the House: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
“You are one in a million.” Vera would say that would mean that there is, roughly speaking, a 0.0001% chance of being that one, meaning that unless you were one of roughly 8,000, chances are you weren’t all that special. Vera is a statistician who is celebrating the publication of her book, when the unthinkable happens - an event where 8 million people suddenly die in horrible and less-than-likely ways (including a chimpanzee with a typewriter wearing a Shakespearean collar). Everything she has ever known with certainty suddenly evaporates. Her mother dies in front of her, and she assumes that her girlfriend is also dead (and in her grief and shock, she doesn’t even look for her). When an agent for the Low-Probability Event Commission shows up at her door offering her potential answers, she has to make a decision - is life worth living? Can she and Agent Layne find the true source of the Low-Probability Events before it is too late? Good news, buckaroos. It’s your Lucky Day ...