8 Minutes 20 Seconds

Max receives the alert: eight minutes and twenty seconds until the sun dies forever. Instead of seeking shelter, he sprints through the panic-stricken city streets. His destination isn't a bunker—it's the apartment of his ex-boyfriend, the man he left behind in a cloud of unresolved words. Every pounding heartbeat on the pavement isn't just a tick toward survival, but a frantic attempt to undo a mistake that now feels microscopic against the yawning eternity of darkness to come. His phone buzzes with frantic alerts, but he sees only one face in the sea of desperate strangers.