The Last One

by Will Dean

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. —MARY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN

But if you’ve ever waited tables, your legs aching, your back hurting, you never forget what it’s like to be treated as a human.

a hundred percent of the moon has been mapped but only five percent of the ocean floor.

Where there are gaps in our knowledge, we fill them with best-guess theories and philosophies of convenience.”