Satoshi Iwai
BLUE SCORPION
When he wakes up from a dream of walking down the long corridor paved with something flabby, he finds the scorpion which has been tattooed on his chest is sliding out of the sweaty skin. The creature crawls on the hallway and heads for the kitchen. Using its curved tail skillfully, the scorpion takes out a carton of beer from the refrigerator and takes it to the living room.
He sits on the couch and watches the TV shopping channel with the scorpion. The scorpion empties the cans one after another. Its blue body gradually turns red. Drinking up the last beer, it begins weeping and orders him to buy the exercise machine appearing on the screen. There must be another life for me! He leaves the scorpion and goes back to bed. The moonlight from the window colors his thin chest blue. He falls asleep and restarts walking down the endless corridor which has grown flabbier.