Centurion: A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure

By M.G. Herron

New planet, new problems

Josu and his father trade up for a second chance at life by emigrating from a dead Earth to the Alpha Centauri system.

But their new role as planetary pioneers presents its own challenges.

One of which is that on this wild, waterlogged world, they always have to watch each other’s backs.

How dangerous can a little fishing trip be? Josu is about to find out.

Centurion is a post-apocalyptic science fiction story about friendship, teamwork and conquering new frontiers. Get it now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: M.G. Herron
• Release date: Nov 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386898368

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Centurion

Copyright © 2017 by M.G. Herron. All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, businesses, events, or locales is purely coincidental. This story may not be reproduced without express written consent.

CENTURION

M.G. HERRON

I WAS SICK and tired of being tired and wet.

"Alpha Century," I said. Although we’d only been on this waterworld a couple months, it felt like a hundred years.

It was an inside joke now, but Dad had laughed at me the first time I asked him if we were moving to Alpha Century. My face had burned while he threw his head back and worked the fit out of his system.

He didn’t hear me this time. Around the corner up ahead, he hacked his machete into a Twitching Vine that had wrapped itself between two broad leafed trees. Moss, climbing up the visible sides of both thick, deeply ridged trunks, gave off a luminescent turquoise glow that always reminded me of the neon lights that still blazed along the skylines of the dying cities of Earth.

"Alpha Centauri is how you say it, Dad had said when he finally stopped laughing. But there’s no reason