A young man will soon leave the planet of his birth with his wife and child, but his mother refuses to go unless they first visit an old war memorial. The visit stirs up more than old memories.

Kyle Pratt is an award-winning and Amazon bestselling author of post-apocalyptic thrillers including Through Many Fires, A Time to Endure and Braving the Storms. The Promise is the first story in what Kyle now calls the Final Duty universe. He wrote The Promise, a 5,000-word short story while deployed on USS Sterett (CG-31) in the western Pacific in the late 1980s. He says, “I think being on a ship helped set the feel of the flashback portion of the story.”

"The Promise"

by Kyle Pratt