The Apocalypse Hoarder
The chilled liquid slid down his throat like nectar of the gods.
In the apocalypse, water meant venturing into subzero hell, digging snow, and melting it. Most who tried never came back.
Cyrus wiped his mouth and fumbled for his phone. It was November 12, a full month before the Frostfall began.
A long breath escaped him. "I came back. I really returned to the past. I regressed."
It was not a dream. It could not be. The memory of his death, every stab of pain, was too sharp, too real.