SHIP OF THESEUS’ CHARACTER CARD: Young Wayne Bird
NAME: Wayne Bird
AGE: 23
OCCUPATION: College Drop-out, House-sitter, Stoner
BIO: Depressed and directionless, college life isn’t working out for Bird, a writer infamous for his uncomfortably personal reviews of albums and movies for a pop culture webzine. His superpower is to see the future in his dreams, but sleeping is fraught with peril as Wayne, the narrator of our story, suffers from vivid, terrifying nightmares as well as regular bouts of sleep paralysis. When his girlfriend dies of a heroin overdose, Wayne must navigate his grief without losing his shaky hold on reality while battling ghosts, zombies, vampires, video games, and worst of all, himself...
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Shiny Red Nothing is proud to present Ship Of Theseus, a genre-nuking novel that pits a troubled young writer named Wayne Bird against his own demons before rocketing him 150 years into the future to meet Skyrat, the superhero he created when he was a little boy.
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