Evidence mounts in a race against time to understand the sudden rise in the sun’s core temperature. The world’s solar scientists insist the data is incontrovertible, and the planet is hurtling toward disaster. But a group of U.S. scientists become suspicious when they discover a link between a group of wealthy Middle-Eastern businessmen and the sun’s strange behavior.

Is the Earth doomed? Evidence mounts in a race against time to understand the sudden rise in the Sun’s core temperature. The world’s solar scientists insist the data is incontrovertible, and the planet is hurtling towards disaster. But a group of U.S. scientists, led by Jacob, a brilliant but emotionally scarred physicist, and Kaye, a sharp-eyed TV news reporter, become suspicious when they discover a link between a group of wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen and the Sun’s strange behavior. The action never stops as they travel from San Francisco to Dubai in a search for answers…and a way to prevent worldwide panic.

On NASA’s Apollo Eleven’s moon mission, Buzz Aldrin had to get on his knees to pick up the hammer he dropped while planting the American lunar Gold Synopsis Flag. Little did he know that when he retrieved his tool, he also picked up tiny nuggets of gold. Fifty years later, Andy, a geologist, finds the gold mixed in with ordinary moon soil that was vacuumed off the knees of Aldrin’s spacesuit when he returned to Earth.

Andy wants to cash in on his discovery by bringing back a small quantity of Lunar gold and selling it for millions of dollars. Andy thinks he’s the only one who knows about his discovery, but unbeknown to him, the Chinese learn Andy’s secret. But they only know it’s somewhere at The Sea of Tranquility’s landing site. Only Andy knows precisely where the gold is. And so begins a race to get to the moon to retrieve the gold.

Note—Astronomers and scientists all agree that if there’s gold on Earth, there has to be gold on the moon because the moon was once part of Earth. Because when Earth was in a molten stage, a Mar’s-size object hit Earth, throwing a massive amount of molten debris into space, and when it cooled, it became Earth’s satellite.

Coming soon (book not yet published).

Very Short Stories are often linked with Flash, Sudden, Micro, or Mini fiction. Because, like Very Short Stories, all of these story forms use a limited number of words to tell a complete story. While there is no set word count, all typically limit the word count to less than 1500 words; most fall well below that amount. The average is approximately 500 words. The shortest story in this collection contains only 372 words. But its brevity doesn’t compare with the story Hemingway wrote. He used only six words: For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.

The original stories in this book were all Flash Fiction. But along the way, I added the non-fiction story, The Stranger. I included it because the story was uniquely interesting and had a bit of unexplained mystery. And I could tell it within the allotted word count.

There are twenty-six distinctively different stories in this collection. A few are 1500 words, but most are half that. I hope you’ll enjoy them all.