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    Crashing From Heaven
    Crashing From Heaven
    Crashing From Heaven
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    Crashing From Heaven

    By Trevor A. A. Evans

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    Aaron feared making this flight across the Pacific with Elizabeth, his wife, who is pregnant with their first child, Evan. But she insisted. With tensions and rumors of war threatening every nation as a global energy crisis has surfaced, this might be the last chance she’ll ever have to see those in Seoul, Korea knit so intimately in her heart. Aaron’s nightmare-scenario becomes reality, however, as the airplane is suddenly turned around. But too late to escape the firefight that rages between eastern and western forces miles above the endless ocean.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrevor A. A. Evans
    Release dateOct 10, 2015
    ISBN9781310352959
    Crashing From Heaven
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    Trevor A. A. Evans

    Trevor wrote a story for himself when he was young divided into three parts: go to college, become a lawyer, and be happy. But when the first part was done, he stood at the edge of a cliff, staring down into the despairing depths of part two, and thought, "Nahhh." Instead, he skipped right on over to part 3, which he discovered creating stories and worlds while marrying the girl of his dreams. At the ripe old age of 29 with plans to write new series in fantasy and science fiction, Trevor's just getting started.

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      Crashing From Heaven - Trevor A. A. Evans

      Crashing From

      Heaven

      Written by Trevor A. A. Evans

      Text Copyright © 2015 by Trevor A. A. Evans

      Published by Thirteen Crossroads Publishing

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotation in articles and reviews.

      ISBN-10: 0-9864-1441-7 (paperback)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9864144-1-1 (paperback)

      www.thirteencrossroads.com

      To Jessica, for your numerous insights on this story, and my mother

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Epilogue

      From the Author

      Chapter One

      My hand rests over my right thigh, feeling as naked as I do in the absence of my pocketknife.

      Airport security confiscated it. It’s been so second-nature to have it on me that I didn’t even think about it as I went through the checkpoints. When the alarm on the x-ray scanner triggered, I was as surprised as anyone. To my embarrassment, a very friendly security guard was immediately there to remove it without a word of warning.

      Things are much tighter these days. Gone are the times when they might have asked you to empty your own pockets. Too many attacks have happened in recent years. I’ve seen videos of terrorists and militants getting caught at security and, upon realizing that their end was near, swiftly lashing out at whomever was nearby. The guard who frisked me and confiscated my knife was just protecting against that possibility. I’m not going to hold it against him.

      Still, I wish I could have somehow been allowed to keep it. It was no ordinary Swiss Army Knife, like the one I had as a kid. That one was already a tribute to versatility, wielding an assortment of blades, scissors, screwdrivers, and plenty of other tools. There was even a toothpick in it, one that I cleaned much less frequently than I care to admit.

      The knife taken at the airport was all that and more. Just like cellphones have turned into all-in-one entertainment devices, pocketknives have received their own innovations, including built-in micro-batteries that are used to power a GPS, a small drill, and many other things including an attachment that produces a spark for starting fires.

      I doubt that I’ll end up needing such tools on this journey across the Pacific, but regardless, losing them makes me feel uneasy and even less prepared to face the challenges that this trip will present. I want to be as ready as possible, just like I learned from my scouting days.

      Aaron, my wife Elizabeth softly whispers from the window seat by my side.

      Her voice startles me a little bit. I had gotten used to the relative silence of the cabin. She’s been asleep since our nighttime takeoff in San Francisco several hours ago. I’ve been too anxious to do likewise.

      What is it? I tenderly reply.

      She just looks at me for a moment, smiling as I smile back. Her eyes seem grateful, as though she had dreamed a long dream, one I was not a part of, and is happy that she is back here with me. I feel no different, hoping that she’ll stay awake and keep me company for the rest of the flight.

      My eyes shift down toward her pregnant belly, which keeps safe what will be our first child, a boy. We’re going to call him Evan. It’s not a family name. It’s actually from a character in a recent novel that Elizabeth really felt for. A young man who falls for a girl but in the midst of war is torn between looking out for her safety and following his ambitions as a soldier.

      Right now, I feel his struggle. Only I have to try to protect the woman I love, not to mention our unborn child, from her own ambitions, and I don’t feel like I’ve done a good enough job considering where we are right now. This trip from San Francisco to Seoul through Sydney was not my idea. With Elizabeth due in just a matter of weeks, I want her home where she will be safe, but she insisted otherwise.

      Relationships between east and west are worse now than they were during the Cold War. At least at that time, we had allies in Asia. Now in an increasingly populated world dotted with modern nations bickering over the earth’s remaining energy resources, allies there are a rare commodity. Only Australia and New Zealand, the two nations still connecting flights between the eastern and western blocs, have managed to maintain friendly relations with both sides as conflict after conflict has arisen.

      In recent weeks, global tension has risen to the same level it was at during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which itself nearly resulted in World War III, after a destructive series of alleged terrorist attacks at key energy facilities throughout the western world. Even though the government continues to blame terrorism, most of us can sense the truth that the attacks were a part of something else. Something much more terrifying. Something that keeps me up at night worrying about what kind of world my son is going to have to grow up in.

      The fear and apprehension in the air are as tangible as the rain and wind, ushering in a growing concern for everyone you love. I feel it for Elizabeth and Evan. I feel it for my family back in America. I feel it for my friends throughout the world. But Elizabeth feels it for those she loves in Korea, and so we journey into the unknown.

      Were she anyone else, I am certain that I could have gotten her to stay home. But the same fiery passion that drives her in everything she does, that spark that made me fall in love with her the moment we met, meant that I couldn’t convince her to play it safe. By the end

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