A “slumber” is someone who is paid to sleep. In the near future, a drug known as “somnus” has made the 5th Industrial Revolution possible. The astonishing substance gives the user all the benefits of a full night’s rest with just one pill. Society is now sleepless. No one sleeps. No one dreams. N...

"Being a teenager is so easy!" Romance-less, friend-less, and borderline broke Arakaki Shuji is a 34 year old mathematics teacher at a private high school in Morioka, Japan. He spends his days droning in class about equations and his nights drinking to forget his lackluster existence. He views hi...