In this dark but deeply satisfying story, Alex Issa explores the rights and obligations of men and women in world which has lost all rules.

Can a woman refuse to give her body for the repopulation of the race?

Is the extinction of mankind justification for rape?

Tom, Mischa, and Ed may be the last three people on Earth, and for them these questions aren’t hypothetical but real, urgent, and immediate.

From its opening sentence to its shocking conclusion, the story unfolds with the stark beauty that only Alex Issa can produce.

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He had watched Tom start to shake and the 45 that had kept him worried for the last 10 minutes had finally come out in the open as judge and jury.

"Why do you always have to push me Ed?" Tom croaked as sweat or possibly tears ran down from his eyes. “Don't make me do this...not now, not after everything that's happened with us."

"Make you do what man?" Ed could tell Tom was breaking and he wasn’t going to slow down now. “She’s mine, something she agreed to when we married. I have a right to do this.” He pleaded a little at the end as if in that little inflection he had proved his innocence to the worn down mind of Tom.

"Damn it, Ed, she isn't some doll you get to screw because you bought it, she’s a living person!" His hands were still shaking...f**k.

Ed eyed Tom carefully, judging how close his friend seemed to breaking one way or the other. Then hoping for the best he decided to ignore him and shifting back atop the struggling and drugged Mischa, he continued to carefully unbutton her shirt.