Terminal Boredom: Stories

by Izumi Suzuki

—You’re out to annihilate the human race! —Yeesh, you sound like a broken record. The thought’s never even crossed my mind!

Seems there are three kinds of books: ones that are all lies, ones that are half lies and half true, and ones that are true through and through.

‘It’s these awful books. Now she’s started reading about how daughters hate their moms and love their dads.

i just can’t escape him

It took Mom two and a half days to get ready.

there’s no use holding a village at the family grave.

We all know how pure that heart of yours is. I might as well keep it by the door and use it as a shoe rag.’

‘I can’t get no satisfaction …’ Emma sang along weakly with Mick Jagger. Almost immediately, she felt out of breath. I’m going to die, she thought, and soon.

Sun Ra’s ‘Heliocentric’ came on.