Alone With You in the Ether. A love story

He is a doctoral student, consumed by calculations on time travel - which he uses as a distraction from destructive thoughts. She is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictably tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, sometimes imagining a new, alternate timeline springing from each rash decision.
To Aldo, the world feels chaotic. So he's erected a wall of routines : a backbeat of rules. Without them, the framework of his existence would collapse. For Regan and Aldo, life has involved resigning themselves to society's expectations. But could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that disrupts the entire simulation ?