Falling Warrior

By Paul Holloway

This is a very short story about people in the not so distant future who have not changed their ways fast enough and time has run out for almost everyone who has not followed the way of the Hegemon. However, there is one last place on Earth that still attempts to follow the guidance of their creator: the legendary Kingdom of Xu, descendants of the now not so underground Combined Chinese Christian Church now concentrated in the most vertically integrated and built civilization ever built on top of the summit of Mt. Kenya in Africa. Hegemonic forces have just brought down the nearby Abyssinian Empire and their dear city of Newer Jerusalem is directly in the cross hairs of the invading overwhelming trans-human army that have already surpassed the technological singularity. How will the few remaining Holy Warriors left respond to their dire situation? Will they be able to save what is left of their 6000 years of basic human civilization? Is anything still possible with God supposedly on their side? Or has God doomed everyone left on Earth to a most horrible tribulation?

Upon being given notification from the secretive Chongqing Control, Flamma the Abbot in their suborbital monastery seems to think that Xiàhóu Xù is perfect for this last and most important mission to be undertaken by a single Holy Warrior - enable the greatest evacuation since the British saved most of their forces in Europe by evacuating Dunkirk. Once fully aware of his surroundings, Xiàhóu Xù, the highest trained basic human of all time, relies on all of his extensive training to go into a sort of auto-pilot that enables him to concentrate on the most important unfinished details from his life while descending from his heavenly perch - all necessary in order to be in the right frame of mind to best accomplish the goals of his final mission once he nears the landing zone that is within a Middle Eastern city on the Silk Line Hyperloop.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Holloway
• Release date: May 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463321997

Paul Holloway

I grew up in near Salem, Oregon and got married to my wonderful wife in Portland, Oregon and adopted two wonderful kids from China that are now teens. Then we felt led to move near San Diego, California after both of us getting interviews the same week and then offers the next week and then finding a $1500 coin right before the move that really helped us out moving. It was after the San Diego move, being away from family and still dealing with issues related with adopting an older special needs kid from China, and working for a company moving to Atlanta that I started writing and writing until seven years later I finally felt led to self-publish my first short story on Smashwords and KDP. There is much more to come! I only hope my wife has the time to proofread it all.

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