Vengeance Enlisted

I was never meant to be a marine.I was never meant to kill anyone.I was never meant to learn how to fight. But life had other plans for me, and as my final teenage years slipped away I was thrust head-first into an intergalactic conflict.Earth was at war, had been for generations. An alien race we called the geckos was battling against us on a thousand planets.We all have to do our bit. We all have to fight.None of that mattered to me: the girl that I loved was cruelly taken. Consumed by anger and fueled by hate I took it upon myself to do whatever it takes to get revenge. The aliens could wait. My war was against another human.This is the story of how I became a marine.This is the story of how I got vengeance.Vengeance Enlisted is a science fiction short read (about two hours).