This story was written as part of a short story challenge, where I had to write 5 stories in five weeks following along with a class of fellow writers.

A good challenge.

At the time, I was focused on post-apocalyptic scenarios. Each apocalypse is slightly different, but every story focuses on a young man coming of age in a bizarre new world.

In some cases it was a new post-apocalypse Earth. This story is different. In “Centurion”, I asked myself, what would it be like if a man and his s...