Destroyers of Inhumanity – Short Story
Mars is quiet and empty. It’s my home now, away from the Earth that I once knew. It’s a screwed-up universe and we’re all just part of it. All I want to do is dance on its grave but the arrival of the Scorpions prevented that.
The sky became dark on the 9th day of the third World War, when earth was embroiled in its own nuclear downfall. They came by the thousands in their massive flagships, somewhere from the abyss of deep space. But they were unlike anything humanity had ever seen. They came down from the sky in huge meteor-sized rocks, long and narrow. I was a general in the US-Canadian-UK alliance, under the leadership of Commander Brisbane. We were eating our daily rations of insect-slob in the DFAC when the news came in. Hundreds of large rocks, didn’t fall but descended from the sky, undetected by space force defenses Read More

