The Crimson Thread of Abandon

The Crimson Thread of Abandon is a collection of short fiction by Shūji Terayama, translated into English by Elizabeth L. Armstrong and published by the University of Hawai'i Press in 2013. The book contains a total of 20 stories. The stories in the first half of the book originate from the collection Stories Sewn Up with a Red Thread.

Robert Anthony Siegel wrote in Three Percent that the translation had a "graceful" approach to wordplay and puns, and that the translator did her task "with sensitivity and skill".

Stories

 * "Ribbon of the Sea"
 * "Bird in a Bottle"
 * "Yesterday"
 * "Memory Shot"
 * "Gotta Dance"
 * "The Eraser"
 * "The Elusive Milena"
 * "Remy's Quantum Realities"
 * "One-Centimeter Journey"
 * "Five Stories of Hide-and-Seek"
 * "Alice in Shadowland"
 * "Alice in Bookland"
 * "Que Sera Sera"
 * "24,000 Kisses"
 * "The Thief's Tango"
 * "Joker Joe"
 * "Flame"
 * "Hide-and-Not-Go-Seek"
 * "Lena's Death"
 * "Fallen Angel"