"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." When notorious pirate (and total asshole) Gerard Way snatches young, innocent Frank Iero from his tidy, planned-out life and deposits him on the infamous pirate ship, The Black Freighter, he is immersed in a world of deception, violence and sin. The thing is, though, he knows from the start that it won't be the fighting that destroys him-- it will be the loathing he and Gerard feel for each other that will tear him apart in the end.

Than is the living embodiment of Death. Or the Grim Reaper. Or a hallucination. Or Satan incarnate. Definitely one of those; he's just not sure which. The only person in the entire world who can see him happens to be Eliza-- a suicidal, possibly schizophrenic teenager who finally feels it's time to do herself in now that her best friend and crush has put a gun to his head. Taking place over the course of only one day, this witty, grotesque novel mixes realistic fiction with the supernatural as Than begins to discover his true nature. But he's got to hurry... Eliza thinks she's figured out his true nature as well. 62,865 WORD COUNT / FINISHED