Machine God

In a war-torn future where humanity struggles for dwindling resources, one nameless military pilot promises to end the war. The difference between her and every single recruit who vows to do the same? She can pilot a mech.

10 stories tall and more alive than most humans are, the mech is the only love the pilot has ever known. Their bond is unbreakable, even through death. But can they endure being chosen by a Machine God, a herald from another age who makes them into the prophets of a future without humanity? How does a human understand a god - and how can she stay human after doing so?

This 23,000-word standalone short story features breathtaking mech fights, devastating drug use, cruel hospitals, delusions of grandeur, undying loyalty to the military, a sapphic infatuation between a pilot and her machine, religious visions of a world long after humanity is gone, and a doctor who knows more than he's letting on.