Screaming Metal
It should have just been a quick¸ albeit deceptive¸ dig for an alien AI braincore on the planet of Shake Hands¸ a frontier world eschewing high tech and outsiders... Then someone tried to kill Pree and her crew. "Screaming Metal" is a Twitter novella (31¸000 words) written in microfiction format (25 words or less per "paragraph") partially posted on Twitter in 2015 and Vocal in 2017-2018. Inspired by works like Makoto Kobayashi's Dragon's Heaven ¸ Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series¸ and the wildly imaginative adult-level reader (but not adult content) stories within Heavy Metal Magazine among others. At its core¸ "Screaming Metal" is action adventure sci-fi set on a distant planet in the far future¸ featuring sentient AI mecha of a mysterious alien origin. The novella is a complete story; there are no subsequent volumes to purchase. PDF¸ mobi¸ and epub available.