The mission was never meant to last.
The surface is worse than they feared.
The sea is alive.
And not everyone makes it back.
After a brutal encounter on the poisoned coast, Nathan and the survivors are forced to turn back. But the world they’re crossing now feels different—closer, watching.
Emma is gone.
As they move through ruined towns and silent roads, the signs become impossible to ignore. The surface isn’t just changing.
It’s awakening.
Something followed them.
Something old.
Something that should have stayed buried beneath the black snow.
And if it’s already hunting them…
there may be nowhere left to run.
Broken Ones is the second novella in the Project Ark Cycle, a post-apocalyptic science fiction series told across three short reads.
Genre: Science Fiction
The surface is worse than they feared.
The sea is alive.
And not everyone makes it back.
After a brutal encounter on the poisoned coast, Nathan and the survivors are forced to turn back. But the world they’re crossing now feels different—closer, watching.
Emma is gone.
As they move through ruined towns and silent roads, the signs become impossible to ignore. The surface isn’t just changing.
It’s awakening.
Something followed them.
Something old.
Something that should have stayed buried beneath the black snow.
And if it’s already hunting them…
there may be nowhere left to run.
Broken Ones is the second novella in the Project Ark Cycle, a post-apocalyptic science fiction series told across three short reads.
Genre: Science Fiction
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