The Story
She Never Asked
to Be a Hero.
Emily's world fell apart in stages. First came her mother's illness — long and quiet and devastating, the kind that hollows a family out before anyone admits it's over.
Then the dead started walking. And the world her father was holding together for them — by sheer will, by love, by everything he had — finally broke. He didn't make it.
Now there's only Emily. And Sam — her little brother who still holds his teddy bear like it can protect him. Who looks up at her with eyes that ask the one question she can't answer: Are we going to be okay?
She doesn't know. But she'll die before she lets him find out.
