Kevin was a man for whom the universe had a very specific, very cruel sense of humor. He was the kind of person who would get struck by lightning while winning a free umbrella. His life was a series of improbable misfortunes, a long sequence of "why me?"

He met The Trickster on a Tuesday. The man was standing on the ledge of the Empire State Building, not to jump, but to "test the aerodynamic properties of a silk handkerchief." He had slipped, and Kevin, who happened to be a window washer on the 80th floor, had caught him by the collar in a frantic, clumsy scramble.

The Trickster, a man dressed in a neon-pink suit with a bowler hat, laughed with a sound like breaking glass. "My dear boy! You've saved a man of great taste and very little patience. As a reward, I give you the Coin of Randomness."

The coin was a simple silver piece, but it operated on a logic that defied physics. Whenever Kevin flipped it and it landed on heads, he received a random, massive windfall. The first time, he found a forgotten Swiss bank account in his name containing two million dollars. The second time, he inherited a vineyard in Tuscany from a great-uncle he never knew existed.

But the universe always balances its books.

Each "heads" came with a "void." After the first windfall, Kevin lost the ability to perceive the color blue. The sky became a flat, oppressive grey; the ocean turned into a sheet of lead.

After the second windfall, he lost his sense of taste. The finest caviar and the cheapest cardboard tasted exactly the same—like nothing.

By the tenth flip, Kevin was the wealthiest man in his zip code, and he was a sensory ghost. He could no longer feel the texture of fabric, he couldn't smell the rain, and he had forgotten how to laugh. He lived in a mansion of marble and gold, but he experienced it as a sterile, scentless, tasteless void.

He tried to stop flipping the coin, but the wealth had created its own gravity. He was surrounded by "friends" who loved his money and a world that demanded he spend it. He became a prisoner of his own success, a man who could buy anything but the ability to enjoy it.

One day, Kevin flipped the coin one last time. Heads.

A billion dollars appeared in his account. And in that instant, Kevin forgot how to breathe.

He died in his silk sheets, the wealthiest corpse in New York, while the Coin of Randomness rolled across the floor and came to rest on tails.

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