Photogragh "Last Man Standing" © John D. Stanton www.3AMBlue.com
The Last Adam
by Gareth D Jones © 2006
The last man on earth worked in heart-broken silence, carving a name onto a wooden plaque with meticulous care. Once complete he placed it atop the last of a seemingly endless series of graves that had been harder and harder to dig with fewer and fewer people.
He sat down heavily and stared at his handiwork. He was no longer just the last man on earth. He was now the last human too.
The plaque simply read: ‘Eve'.
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Gareth is from England and mostly writes science fiction, with stories both on line and in print. He is now in his last year of part-time study for a degree in Environmental Science, a subject that, so far, has inspired none of his stories.
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