In this novelette by T.C. McCarthy, one ordinary woman with
nothing to lose joins the French Foreign Legion and finds herself,
and her comrades, pinned down in a bunker surrounded by
enemies. Thousands of the mantis-like creatures swarm towards
them and with no communications and little ammo, survival is a
desperate hope. She is a volunteer and a soldier, and to save
herself, her squad, and the refugees they defend, she must
remember the life she left behind.