Face the darkness of combat with unflinching eyes. The deepest horror gives prelude to the greatest human courage, as the sixteen stories in Volume 11 of Bullet Points show. This issue includes original stories from James S. Aaron, Gio Clairval, and Mandy Munro, and reprints from Sean Patrick Hazlett, Emma Burnett, Rich Larson, Addison Smith, among many others. Bullet Points 11 not only terrifies and saddens; it awes and inspires.
Rich Larson, "Sniper and I": An endless war. A sniper bonded to a living rifle. An agent sent to spot them.
Jeremy Szal, "Dead Men Walking": Armoured soldiers on a far-flung planet discover a dark secret about their Commander, and themselves.
Kurt Nelson: "Wax Soldiers": Simms fights enemy soldiers from a bombed-out church.
Gerri Leen, "How to Deploy Tauran Monster Crabs": Don't deviate from these instructions.
Gio Clairval, "Operation BLACK ICE": A black-ops team sent to a silent Antarctic outpost discovers something ancient, adaptive, and unspeakable waiting beneath the ice.
Michael Baez, "A Lesson in History": In an alternate universe, the clergy is more than just a faithful.
Emma Burnett, "The Room on the Other Side of the Plexi": Lila, a refugee, must save her daughter's teddy when a pebble pierces the hull.
Sean Patrick Hazlett, "Mandible": A haunted CIA agent seeks an extreme occult method to end the Cold War in war-torn Angola.
Mandy Munro, "Black Rain": Alien soldiers hunt Ana and her Ma.
Natasha Smith, "A Little Contagion Never Hurt Anyone": After drawing the short straw, Devon is forced to merge his consciousness with an invasive species.
Grigory Lukin, "Hard As a Mirror of Cast Bronze": An assassin searches sideways and down across alternate dimensions to find his target.
James S. Aaron, "EagleEye": In a near-future civil war, social media turns dead soldiers into a psyop.
Henry Herz, "In the Deadly Dark": Russian soldiers think they've uncovered a vast diamond deposit in occupied Ukraine, but that's not all they discover.
Addison Smith, "Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves": Nova carries her captain's head into battle.
Don Money, "Below to the Fray": The Tunnel Rats are the brave soldiers tasked with getting into the enemy tunnels to bring the fight to them.
Liam Hogan, "For Remembrance": In the aftermath of a war, a squad of soldiers investigates reports of a psychic. It takes one to know one.