Everything Happened at Once

BY Choi Jin-Young

A mutant virus has swept half of the world's population overnight. The known world has collapsed. The new world is a lawless place where children's livers are believed to provide immunity.

In one apartment block, an unlikely pack break out of quarantine in a stolen lorry and brave an achingly empty world once teeming with colour. The desolate reaches of Eurasia are signposted with fellow defectors and found family.

A wandering travel agent.

A mixed-race divorcee embracing her sacred desire.

A deaf girl traversing the frozen continent barefoot.

Brazen, 2026