James Scholes

Vengeance Enlisted James Scholes

I was never meant to be a marine. I was never meant to kill anyone. I was never meant to learn how to fight. But life had other plans for me, and as my final teenage years slipped away I was thrust head-first into an intergalactic conflict. Earth was at war, had been for generations. An alien race we called the geckos was battling against us on a thousand planets. We all have to do our bit. We all have to fight. None of that mattered to me: the girl that I loved was cruelly taken. Consumed by anger and fueled by hate I took it upon myself to do whatever it takes to get revenge. The aliens could wait. My war was against another human. This is the story of how I became a marine. This is the story of how I got vengeance. Vengeance Enlisted is a science fiction short read (about two hours).