The Promise

Do the spirits of the dead in space return home or drift forever between worlds? 

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 and science fiction thrillers. 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 1980's. He says, "I think being on a ship helped set the feel of the flashback portion of the story."