The Last One

by Will Dean

There’s a rational explanation, there always is.

Sometimes you have to pocket your moral compass and find a novel way to navigate.

The only private spaces we have are inside our own minds. The thoughts we conceal from one another. From ourselves.

You’re strong, until you’re not.

Group dynamics are notoriously unpredictable.

We have rights, even out here in the middle of the ocean. Human rights. The UN ratified a universal declaration, for God’s sake.

“You can’t leave if there’s no safe place to run to.”