Stories

Free reading, if you like sci-fi short stories.

MERCENARY MECHS

Set in the near future, in a "post-democratic" world, where fair and just rule is a joke, the man with the biggest stick is the one best off...and the ones with the biggest sticks on the battlefield are the mechs-for-hire.  Potential asset or crippling (and expensive) liability, they are the heroes, villains, and shapers of the remains of civilization.

The Challenger: two brothers against the world.
The Sniper: one woman who makes a min-maxed mech work.
The Trapper: mercenaries bonded by the never-ending need for funds.
The Commander: a man with the power to protect or crush a city-state in his hands.
The Hunter: three men who are the very best at what they do, the best at all they know how to do.