oleh Benedict Leong

A global nuclear war in 2015 turned the sky orange before fading to gray. Temperatures plunged, crops no longer grew and society slowly collapsed. Now, a century after the first missiles were launched, the end of all life on earth loomed on the horizon.

Frost devouring forests and what once thrived with life, its remnants lie trapped beneath an eternal winter. Even Malaysia, known for its year-round tropical heat, has entered a permanent ice age. A young girl, Dahlia left the safety of her underground shelter to search for her missing father and faced a frozen Malaysian wilderness unrecognizable from what she had read about. Fallen skyscrapers. Snowpacked highways. Lush greenery now painted in shades of white— a land that no longer remembered warmth.

But the blistering cold was not the biggest threat to her survival. The true horror of the frozen wasteland stalked her every move. Nobody knew what it was or how it came to exist, but everyone called it Phaggr. To encounter it is to court certain death, turning her search into a race against time.

And if she makes it past all that, what will she truly find at the end of the world?