Decade: Ten Stories of a Future (American) War

In celebration of our fine independence from those dastardly, tax-heavy Brits, I'm posting a novella/collection of short stories I wrote about a year ago that, well, sat on the shelf. I wrote it to get out of my heady-prose mindset after coming off two Chronicle novels (the behemoth Ages and the still-self-confused Century) and to expand my fictional future-America-universe to cover absolutely everything unnecessary.

(Also I'm in a bit of a clearinghouse mode with one long-time-coming script given another polish and my own plan to write another goddamn, better-written novel since making another movie looks pretty slim.)

This piece is called--

Decade: Ten Stories of a Future (American) War

--and the ten stories are:

1. Sharpshooters
2. Rogues
3. Acronyms
4. That Goddamn Bridge
5. Modern Mechanized Warfare
6. Death Messages
7. Keys
8. Colony
9. The Lecture Circuit
10. Old War

You can download the PDF.

Stats (some via Wolfram Alpha):

• 10 stories
  
• 26,124 words
  
• 48 PDF pages
  
• Approx. 36 book pages
  
• 95 mins. estimated reading time

Also, for whatever reason, I actually had this formally copyrighted. (I didn't even do that for Transmissions. Probably since I used licensed music.) So steal away and send it to fancy magazines and say you wrote it. Go ahead: I'm not doing anything with it, other than writing an adaptation that becomes vastly different (and better) within five pages.