So Long, Lollipops
Until the End of the World #1.5 • Book 1
Why You'll Love This
This is the companion novella that makes you realize you cared about Peter far more than you knew.
- Great if you want: a focused, character-driven gap-filler that deepens the main story
- The experience: short, tense, and emotionally concentrated — read in one sitting
- The writing: Fleming keeps the stakes intimate without losing the series' grit
- Skip if: you haven't read Until the End of the World — spoilers are unavoidable
About This Book
Before the world ended, Peter knew exactly who he was. Now he's not so sure—but he knows who he needs to find. This companion novella to Until the End of the World follows Peter through a desperate, intimate journey to reunite with the people who have become his reason to keep moving. The stakes are survival, yes, but the real weight is emotional: what it costs to hold onto hope when hope keeps slipping through your fingers, and what it means to fight your way back to chosen family in a world that keeps saying no.
Fleming writes with a precision that makes ninety pages feel complete rather than compressed. Her prose is direct without being spare, and she has a rare gift for grounding apocalyptic tension in recognizable human feeling—grief, stubbornness, the particular ache of almost. Readers already invested in this world will find So Long, Lollipops deepens rather than just extends it, adding texture to a character who deserves his own reckoning. It's the kind of short fiction that earns its place in a series rather than simply occupying it.
