In the first story of the collection, "God's Dice," Kuo handles with insouciance the haphazard plight of a middle-aged man who on a stopover in a small town happens to get sucked into a game of chance.
以開卷之作〈上帝的骰子〉為例。故事處理一名中年人偶然停駐某小鎮，因緣際會，涉入一場賭局。