Short Story (Loscombe)

He came to the city for a better life. His parents came to find out what happened to him. Harlan Potts has the answers but do they want to hear them? Harlan knows that what he has to tell them may break their hearts but they have paid him to do a job and he is a man of his word. No matter what the cost, he intends to tell them the truth.

The past is the present is the past. Jacob survived the virus that wiped out most of humanity, but he can't leave the past where it belongs. Tormented by nightmares, the only option seems to be returning to the source of it all and facing up to what he has done. But the past is complicated, and he soon realises that putting it behind him won't be as straight forward as he thought. If he can't come to terms with what he has done and what he must do, his sanity and the lives of the people he loves may be forfeit.

The last man on Earth has company He has been alone since she died. Since they all died. He wants to believe that there are other people out there, but the evidence suggests that isn't the case. He comes to accept that he is the only one left, until the morning when he wakes up to find that it has snowed and there are footprints beneath his window. He follows them in the hope of finally finding other people like him, but the longer the chase goes on, the more he questions what he is seeing and his own sanity.