The Man Who Made the World

When a peculiar little man arrives at Dr. Janishefsky’s office claiming to have made the world, the doctor assumes he is dealing with a delusion. Mr. Smith, however, calmly insists that Earth is only five years old, that its ancient history is an elaborate illusion, and that he assembled everything from instruction books he invented himself. Their questioning becomes an increasingly strange debate about creation, punishment, science, and the possibility that reality is far less dependable than it appears.

Mr. Smith’s story is comic, unsettling, and full of philosophical mischief. He says he built the world simply to escape boredom, then set it running without understanding whether it would work properly. Now he has a troubling premonition about his own death—and warns that someone may need to take over before the entire world disappears. This compact science-fiction tale blends deadpan humor with a provocative look at authorship, responsibility, and what holds existence together.