Meet me at the end of the world… As civilization comes to an end, Lewis and Karen take their last vacation to the only cold place left on Earth, the remote resort town of Cold Pools. There, they will say goodbye… The Cold Pools — a short story of 3,000 words, is taken from the author’s collection Ms Ito’s Bird & Other Stories. Chris Ward is the author of more than 80 short stories (33 of them published) and the novel The Tube Riders, available now on Amazon