Gingers are dangerous. We steal souls.

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You're right. The coin should have fallen. On both sides. And its edge.

> I just thought it was an interesting concept.

It was. Interesting enough that I was very bothered by not understanding it.

So it's supposed to be something of a mystery -- some supernaturalquantum mythological horror being.

> The coyote is the thing that hangs always out of sight.

Is this a pop culture reference I'm missing? (I live on pop culture references, that embarasses me.)

No, I understand quantum physics and the coin being in a superstate until the wave function collapsed by his friend turning around. (queue Feynman's "Anybody who thinks they understand Quantum Mechanics does not understand Quantum Mechanics.") What I don't get is what the protagonist sees at the end.

That's what is frustrating to me here -- I love your story. I love how you wrote it, and the scientific accuracy of the explanation and the coin. I have no idea what happens at the end. (or perhaps more accurately, what probabilities the protagonist saw before the end.)

Can you explain the ending to me? I don't get the fuzzy coyote thing.