Third Person Standalone | How To Survive-

That is how you survive.

He squints. Reads: Step 1: Remember who you were. Step 2: Give away what you love most but keep the memory of it. Step 3: Find the others who also kept their half. He reaches into his pocket. The torn photograph of Elena is still there. Her smile, severed but whole in his mind. How To Survive- Third Person Standalone

His name is Leo. That’s the first thing he checks. Name, rank, birthday, mother’s maiden name. The checklist from some long-ago survival seminar. He is thirty-four. He is a former firefighter. He has a scar on his left palm from a broken jar when he was seven. Good. He is still a person. That is how you survive

Leo blinks. The voice is not inside his teeth. It’s outside, human, scared. A young woman with a cut on her forehead and a child clinging to her leg. Step 2: Give away what you love most