Скачать или смотреть 🎧 The Speed of Boredom | A Surreal Sci-Fi Short Story About Time, Mortality, and Madness

In this mind-bending episode of Speculative Fiction Tales, author Jon Cronshaw explores a radical theory about cheating death through boredom—and the disturbing consequences of trying to live forever by eliminating joy.

The Speed of Boredom follows an unnamed narrator who becomes obsessed with the idea that time dilates during boredom. Convinced that excruciating tedium might stretch subjective experience, they begin a disturbing experiment: stripping their life of anything interesting, stimulating, or human. What begins as a philosophical musing spirals into an unsettling descent into isolation, obsession, and existential collapse.

Told with dark humour and haunting insight, this speculative fiction short story examines how our fear of mortality might drive us to unlive our lives entirely.

Themes & Topics
• Time perception and subjective experience
• Existential dread and the fear of death
• The paradox of longevity at the cost of meaning
• Mental health and obsessive behaviour
• Boredom as survival strategy
• Isolation and self-destruction

Listener Discretion
This episode includes themes of mental health decline, extreme isolation, and obsessive thinking that may be distressing for some listeners.

About the Author
Jon Cronshaw writes speculative fiction that probes the absurd and unsettling corners of the human mind. His stories often explore how logical ideas can spiral into madness when taken to their extremes.

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