Short stories tagged with War Crimes

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A Vietnam War veteran grapples with guilt over his wartime offenses. As memories from his past threaten to overwhelm him, he risks his legal career to try and rinse the blood from his hands.

The Thirteen Mercies were given to Moses to rid the world of sin. But in a dystopian world, a group of soldiers used the powers of the Reversed Thirteen Mercies to commit war crimes. Now, imprisoned on a hostile jungle island, they await their judgement. The Thirteen Mercies, granted to mankind by God, promises to rid the humanity of sin. But in a dystopian world, a group of soldiers are imprisoned on a jungle island for using defiled spells of the Reversed Thirteen Mercies to commit war crimes.

Following the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese soldier shows up at the house of one of his former battalion mate, a mother must grapple with whether to hold onto her son’s memory or let him go.

In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, humans who reject this conversion are hunted down by the posthuman's artificial intelligence army. But as one AI becomes aware of the posthumans' excessive cruelty, he starts to recognize the inherent worth of mortal humans. In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, an AI soldier in charge of hunting down humans who reject this conversion becomes troubled that the posthumans have, along the way, traded away their conscience.

In 1999, a Wyoming ranch owner estranged from his ex-wife, sons, and grandchildren deliberates over what to do with his property when he dies.

When a posthuman 'hardshell' robot finds an injured biological human who has committed war crimes against hardshells, the hardshell's programming will not allow it to let the human come to harm, so it must use all the resources it has to find a way to bring this war criminal to justice.