Issue 13 - Ray Gun Revival

The Price of Conquest, by Mik Wilkens Pg.
yet he was offering her a place in his organization
instead. And he wanted her for her abilities, not
her looks.
“Look, Bryant, all I’m asking is that you give me
and my people a chance to show you what we’re
doing. You just might find it’s what you’ve been
fighting for all along.”
She started to tell him she’d never fought for
anything, but then she realized she had been
fighting all of her life. Fighting for the freedom
to live and do as she wanted. It was why she
ran away from the Academy, why she left the
Wolfpack and hooked up with Tempo. It was why
she wanted the Conquest.
The Guard fought for freedom, too, only on a
much grander scale. Maybe working with them
wouldn’t be so bad. At least she could give it a
try; that was all the colonel was asking. And she’d
get to keep the Conquest.
That didn’t sound like too high of a price to
pay.
Mik Wilkens
Mik Wilkens has done many things in
her life--all of them creative. She’s been
an illustrator, trophy designer, graphic
artist, programmer, multimedia developer,
and webmaster. She is a huge fan of space
opera but can never get enough to read,
so decided to try writing some of her own.
To date, she has written several novels
and novellas (SF and fantasy), and even a
couple of short stories.
Mik participates in Renaissance
Faires throughout the southwest United
States, promoting adoption of retired
racing Greyhounds with Greyhounds of
Fairhaven, a non-profit organization she
founded several years ago. She also enjoys
mastering fantasy role-playing games,
a dangerous habit she picked up when
Dungeon and Dragons was first released
in 1976. Mik lives in Scottsdale, Arizona,
with her husband, five retired racing Greyhounds,
and a three-legged demon in a
cat suit.
Ray Gun Revival magazine Issue 13, January 01, 2007