Choices

By Chris Winder

What would you do?

Staff Sergeant Andrew Page misses his kids. He thinks about them every moment he gets, even though he's missed more birthdays than he'd care to admit.

The war against the Resistance isn't going well. It's forced the Republic to cut corners and keep him out longer than he'd expected. He's a father, though he doesn't feel like one.

When an intruder is discovered on their transport vessel, Page and his fellow Republic Marines have to decide what to do and how to survive.

In the end, Page is faced with a choice. He can live with a secret he can never reveal, or die and take it to his grave.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Winder Books
• Release date: Jul 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393212201

Chris Winder

Chris Winder is a Science Fiction author, former United States Marine, husband, and father. His stories include Space Trash, a comic science fiction novel, Breach Team, a space Marine novel (co-written with best-selling author JR Handley), What Really Matters, a story told in the Four Horsemen Universe of Chris Kennedy Publishing, and more. Chris Winder lives in northern Arizona where he enjoys the peace and quiet of rural living along with his wife, youngest child, elderly dog, and two obnoxious but adorable cats.

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Choices

Chris Winder

Published by Chris Winder Books, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

CHOICES

First edition. July 28, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Chris Winder.

ISBN: 978-1393212201

Written by Chris Winder.

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Choices

Further Reading: Resistance

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Staff Sergeant Andrew Page rolled the small, pink ball around in his hand. It was a simple game. He liked to see how close he could get the ball to the edge of his big palm without allowing it to fall to the ground. That’s what he told anyone who asked. It was easier than explaining that he only played the game when he was thinking about his kids.

They were millions of miles away with their mother, hopefully. Her new boyfriend seemed like a decent man, based on what his son and daughter said about him. He worked for the Republic. He had some big-time cushy job which allowed him to buy nice things for his new family. It took a special kind of man to treat someone else’s kids like they were his own. In a way, they were. He sees them more than I do, Page thought as he curled his fingers around the polymer orb in his hand.

The other Marines were playing cards, arguing over who’d just ruined the last hand and thrown the cards across the room. He was thankful Corporal Hauser, a big, ugly brute only a year or two younger than himself, had thought to bring several sets. Spare cards would keep the men busy throughout the long flight through space. With the war against the Resistance, the Republic had to commission slower civilian ships to transport troops between duty stations.

His unit, the Red Drakes, had taken such a beating, the Republic had split the