Member-only story
True Believers is a full-length novel by Thom Dunn, based on his play of the same name. It’s a satirical tale of star-crossed lovers, aspiring comic book creators, crazed fanboys, cybernetically enhanced humans, women in refrigerators, real-life superheroes, and girls who dress like Slave Leia as their lives intertwine over a whirlwind weekend at a comic book convention in the early 2010s.
The book will be serialized on Medium throughout the month of April 2020. Here is the first chapter. Check back every day for more chapters!
“Look, I understand what you were going for. I get that it was well-intentioned. But you can’t just show up like that wearing a Slave Leia costume, Chloe. It’s just not — ah, fuck.”
Ted cancels the recording again and deletes another message from the game. He leans back in the leather desk chair and briefly admires the cleaning job that he finally got around to doing today, in between his sad attempts to communicate something, anything with the beautiful woman that he utterly — stupidly — horribly — blew off this afternoon.
After his meltdown in the DC Comics Booth, Ted came straight back to his apartment to collect himself. He tried several times to go back to the convention, but every step felt like a heart attack. At least here he could do…
