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    Mojito Doomsday
    Mojito Doomsday
    Mojito Doomsday
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    Mojito Doomsday

    By Jonathan L. Howard

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    The tale of a girl and her mecha.

    Freya works the fields of her parents' farm with the help of Mohi, a semi-intelligent robot. Once, Mohi fought in the war against the mysterious Xenos, but that's all over now. Nothing exciting's ever going to happen on the colony world of Neper again, no matter how much Freya wishes something would.

    But then she gets her wish, and it changes everything. She will finally get her excitement, will finally be the hero, but the cost may be more than she can bear.

    "Mojito Doomsday" is a YA science-fiction short story set in the universe of Jonathan L. Howard's Russalka Chronicles, as featured in the novels KATYA's WORLD and KATYA'S WAR. It is self-contained and requires no knowledge of the novels.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan L. Howard
    Release dateOct 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301162581
    Mojito Doomsday
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    Jonathan L. Howard

    JONATHAN L HOWARD is an acclaimed writer, video game designer, and BAFTA-nominated scriptwriter, well known for his darkly charming Johannes Cabal the Necromancer series, his Mythos-adjacent Carter & Lovecraft duology, and the YA science fiction Russalka Chronicles. He lives in the English West Country with his family.

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      Mojito Doomsday - Jonathan L. Howard

      MOJITO DOOMSDAY

      by

      Jonathan L. Howard

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      Mojito Doomsday

      by

      Jonathan L. Howard

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

      Copyright © 2013 Jonathan L. Howard

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      Cover design by Jonathan L. Howard

      Mecha artwork by Anthony Cournoyer

      www.jonathanlhoward.com

      I ask her, Mohi? What was it like?

      She pauses in detaching the plough chains from her spinal couplings. She shifts her upper torso to bear upon me. She has cameras all over; she doesn't need to do that to see me, but she's been taught to somewhere along the line.

      She says nothing. She doesn't know what I mean.

      The war, I say to her. I know it's a pointless conversation by now, but I can't help carrying on. The Xenos. What was it like fighting them?

      She's clever, but only for a machine. I know she's trying to understand me. I know it's the word like that's tripping her up. She's trying to make a subjective comparator objective and she can't do it. She's clever, but only for a machine.

      Did you kill many of them?

      This, she can manage. Once she's wormed her way past defining them and reconciled to kill to her history, she says, "I assisted in the deaths and probable deaths of 745 Xeno combatants,

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