Prologue: The Beginning That Doesn't Begin

Boxer Maru

The Rise and Fall of the Pirate Ship

The Village of the Man-Eating Insects

Why We Stopped Eating Human Flesh

Paradise Lost

The Blind Arab

The Camel Hotel

The Gatekeepers

Undesirable Return, Unwelcome Survival

The End of the World

Epilogue: The End That Doesn't End

Every morning a man wakes up, gets dressed, and heads to work, returning home in the evening to go to sleep. Feeling suffocated by the mundanity and repetitiveness of life, the man takes a detour on his way to work one day. But after being swept up in a tide of piracy, cannibalism, and bizarre religious sects the man starts to wonder: was his boring old life so bad after all?