Hit Parade of Tears

Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom

Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.

A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; idle high school students find adventure in another dimension but aren't all that impressed; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.

Wryly anarchic and deeply imaginative, Suzuki was a writer like no other. These eleven stories offer listeners the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work.

©2014 Suzuki Azusa; translation of “My Guy” and “Trial Witch” copyright 2023 by Sam Bett; translation of “Full of Malice” and “Hey, It’s a Love Psychedelic!” copyright 2023 by David Boyd; translation of “Hit Parade of Tears,” “I’ll Never Forget,” and “Memory of Water” copyright 2023 by Helen O’Horan; translation of “After Everything,” “The Covenant,” “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise,” and “The Walker” copyright 2023 by Daniel Joseph (P)2023 Tantor