Poetry and Short Stories for the Perpetually Bored is an illustrated collection exploring grief, trauma, love, alienation, and the uncomfortable places the human mind can take us. Through personal poetry, social criticism, and dark fiction, it examines people trying to understand their pain, their relationships, and the world around them.
The stories move between psychological horror, surreal nightmares, and sudden violence. In “Wonder,” a man’s disturbing dreams blur into his waking relationship. “Tuesday: Sometime in June” follows an unreliable narrator whose ordinary morning reveals troubling gaps in memory and a deeply unsettling understanding of friendship. “Within the Cracks” draws an unsuspecting man toward a threatening reality beneath everyday life.
Between these stories, the poems confront childhood wounds, broken relationships, injustice, and the longing to be understood. Tenderness shares space with anger, and moments of connection interrupt the darkness. The collection offers no neat answers. It gives language to experiences that can be difficult to speak about and invites readers to recognize something of themselves within its pages.