The Man Who Made the World

"The Man Who Made the World" by Richard Matheson is a science fiction tale about a psychiatrist, Dr. Janishefsky, faced with an impossible claim; Mr. Smith asserts he created the world just five years prior out of sheer boredom. As Smith details his cosmic craftsmanship and subsequent loss of control, a profound and unsettling question arises about the nature of reality and our place in it. Their conversation dances on the edge of sanity as it investigates creation and existence. Smith's fear of his own mortality and the world's potential demise becomes a haunting preoccupation. The story takes a dark twist when Smith's sudden death leads to the vanishing of reality, and Dr. Janishefsky is left floating in the void, challenging everything he thought he knew about the world and his own existence.