Appeared in: ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE,
Summer 1998 - page 31


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MERCENARY is an attempt to write a story in which a mercenary soldier is continually recreated anew, with no memories of his previous reincarnations save those of his immediate past. I hope that the readers are able to keep that firmly in mind and not get too confused.

I wrote another version of this as a hypertext story using the Microsoft Help engine and found that it makes a great deal more sense than the printed version, for, as the reader navigates through it, he will experience the same sort of revelations and confusion as the protagonist. Perhaps some day somebody will turn this tale into a game .