Attack Butterfly

Susan's eyes gleamed with the intensity of a natural born killer instinct. She was always ready to play rough. Susan watched the fixed sight sweep onto another destroyer as her ship came from behind the enemy fleet. She fired her Mark VI and peppered the enemy destroyer from stern to bow. She definitely saw two of her shots go clear through the hull to reveal space on the other side. The guns on the destroyer fell silent. She knew she had destroyed it. "Yeeee-haaaawww! Scratch another destroyer!" This was a fighting Navy that didn't back down or run when the going got tough. This was a fighting Navy that was well trained and confident. This was a fighting Navy willing to go against the long odds. "They've found the enemy flagship! Attack Butterfly is leading them in after it, " the communications officer stated to Admiral Oden. Dave heard the name of the fighter. He thought for a moment before he realized who must be in that fighter. That would have to be Lieutenant jg Thompson, he guessed. She was the only fighter commander he knew of from the academy who went to the Mad Dogs Squadron. So, she had taken his story and used it to name her fighter. Incredible, he thought, but the name fit in an eerie sort of way. Atk. Butterfly has published the novels Washout and The Aliens Is Coming, available from HyperBooks Online and The Professional Writers Forum, respectively. His stories are published in Aphelion, The Blue Lady, Dragon Dreaming, The Dragon's Lair, Dream Forge, Electronic Writers Group Presents, Eternity Magazine, Exodus, Hugo Gernsback's Forecast, Fusion, Gearheads, Jackhammer, Just Because, Keen Science Fiction!, The Little Read Writer's Hood, The Orphic Chronicle, Pegasus Online, McCann's Planet, Nuketown, The Rock, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, The Tales' Realm, Time Winder, Titan Webzine, and Veils Magazine.