𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝? SIMPLE... YOU BREAK TIME. My name is Camryn. I talk to a ghost in my phone who calls me his wife. He says he's from the future. He says he loves me. He says I die tomorrow. He lied. The truth is worse. It's a fracture in time. Every message pulls him closer, and every step toward him breaks the world I know. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥-𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬.

She gave up Ethan so he could have his happy ending... now it's Oatley's turn to find hers.

(A fanfic for How Not To Die (Probably) by Jesse Chinedu. Suitable for people who haven't read it yet) Seventeen-year-old Caiden O'Malley has one rule: don't die. It's simple. It's efficient. It's... not really working. When he's not talking to himself trying to remember human interaction, he's trying desperately to avoid being torn to shreds by an infected horde out to eat his mind. He spends his free time dodging bloodthirsty zombies, questioning why his apocalypse outfit looks like "homeless raccoon chic," and discovering that deodorant is, apparently, extinct. He's doing fine, thanks. Which basically means: eating expired canned beans, sprinting from homicidal brain-eaters, and muttering to himself like a man one "bad day" away from adopting a pet rock. What more could a guy want from life? He's seventeen, alone, and not crying about it, thanks for asking. Look, the world's ending. He's just trying not to go with it.