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Must be a lonely life! Is it worth it? Is he hoping to find someone else alive? I think if there was a natural disaster I’d just succumb to it with everyone else.

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I wouldn't want to be the last. Surviving isn't living.

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Shades of what is happening with COVID. The last year has been one of hiding from disease. Not much of a life, eh?

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Being all alone in the world -- I can't imagine what that's like.

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The instinct for survival is strong.

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I think so, too.

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Well I have my Hazmat suit and supplies all ready to go. At least I'll get some peace and quiet.

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It's good to be prepared, just in case. Make sure you have some paper books, too.

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Wow Bill a real Twilight Zone and not such a different feeling from when Covid began. So scary and interesting.

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Thanks, Alison. This was, in some ways, a difficult story to write.

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I couldn’t stop reading until the end. Thank you.

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Thanks, Stefan. I'm delighted you enjoyed The Last Person Alive on Earth.

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It's likely someone else with access to biohazard suits survived somewhere. It would be interesting to read a story in a future in which they find one another I get that's not what you were going for here, but...

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I may write a sequel. After all these years of being alone, thinking he's the last person on Earth, what a surprise that would be.

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I'd read it! Of course, you'd probably find a way to kill them both off. 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Love it. Scary, sad. So where does he go to procure his supplies, are there stores open? BTW my inner grammar nazi insists I say he lay in bed, not laid in bed…:-)

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He forages, raids abandons shops, does what he can. I don't suspect he'll last, but you never know -- he is a survivor.

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I want to jump ahead and see what befalls him! And surely he’s not the only one…

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Right? He *thinks* he's the last person, but there's somebody else...

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