The Last Veteran — Jay Allan

A Dystopian Future Two centuries after the collapse of America, one man knows the terrible truth. Connor Eliott is driven to prevent the doom he knows is coming, but first he must do the impossible. stay alive until he can escape from the front lines. the blood-soaked fields of central Pennsylvania, where the Alliance and the Feds have waged war for 200 years. Connor has one ally. On a battlefield where a soldier's life expectancy is measured in weeks, Charlie Six is an anomaly - an infantryman who has survived for four decades. Charlie pulls no punches, teaching the new recruits how to stay alive in an unsurvivable war. But there's one question he can't even ask himself. is there such a thing as hope, or is it a fool's dream? This is the story of Charlie Six, and the beginning of Connor's quest to save humanity from a dark and terrible future. The Last Veteran is a novelette of approximately 10,000 words and the first installment of the Shattered States series.