Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has ten stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity? A Mother’s Love by J. R. Handley & Jaime DiNote Fog of War by John Mierau A Family Affair by Michael Morton Highwood’s End by Nathan Pedde Time Dogz by Tim C Taylor Human Compatible by Paul E Cooley Poster Child by Tyler E. C. Burnworth Ascendancy by Theodore Hodges Guardian First by Matthew A. Goodwin Contours of War by R. Max Tillsley