Part of Series
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.
Author
Jonathan L Howard is a game designer, scriptwriter, and a veteran of the computer games industry since the early 1990s, with titles such as the 'Broken Sword' series to his credit. After publishing two short stories featuring Johannes Cabal (Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day and Exeunt Demon King) in H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer was published in 2009 as his first novel. Since then there have been three sequels, with a fourth due in 2016. He has also written two novels in the YA SF "Russalka Chronicles" series, and the ongoing "Goon Squad" serial of superhero stories. October 2015 will see the publication of "Carter & Lovecraft," the first in a new series of novels. He lives with his wife and daughter near Bristol. http://www.jonathanlhoward.com/ https://twitter.com/#!/JonathanLHoward http://jonathanlhoward.livejournal.com/
