ultra short SF: start end

There are times in history when too many things happen at once. This was the last such time.
By extrapolating, it was clear that incredible things might take place in the 2030s. A keystone interaction point in the history of evolution.
The most incredible aspect of this age of permanent adjustment was that the world seemed increasingly neutral. Awareness widened as the focus narrowed.
It was like an overflow error. The strange truth was that you could only get so surprised.
What if something truly incredible happened, something more mind-blowing than anything that came before? It would feel unreal, as abstract as something you imagined in an idle thought. That moment exposed reality as a mental construction.
Now there was an alien in the gas station convenience store.
The last few days had gotten wildly crazy, an inverted dream. Reality reached a limit.
He knew it couldn't last much longer.
In fact this was probably his last

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How to own the future
Imagine a Type-1 Open Universe, where nothing can ever be destroyed once it's created. Things can only be expanded and elaborated upon.
Now imagine the opposite: the philosophical possibility of non-existence, or the impossibility of possible existence.
Seems like that might require a sacrifice, to compensate for all the things that don't exist for no reason.
They call it introcursion, quantum tuning feedback amplification.
A full-up quantum bomb can destroy the universe. But somehow, it won't be used in a tiny minority of the universes where it's created.
We have been forever the lucky people. Until