The Second Moon Problem (Ebook)

Millions remember a second moon. There is no evidence it was ever there. Dr Ishbel Kerr answers the public's letters for the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. Usually the answer is Venus. Then an eighty-four-year-old retired teacher from Stornoway writes to her, in fountain pen, to say that when he was a boy there were two moons: a smaller, darker one, the colour of a pebble, that cast a second shadow going the wrong way. It vanished in October 1951. She writes back kindly: there has only ever been one Moon. Then a second letter arrives, from Brittany. Then eleven, from five countries, from people who have never met, all describing the same colour, the same season, the same shadow, the same week it disappeared. Ishbel is a scientist. She doesn't believe in a second moon. But she can't explain the children's diaries she finds in the archives, written at the time, nor the teenage girl in Glasgow who draws a detail nobody has ever published. And then her mother finds something in the loft. THE SECOND MOON PROBLEM: a novella of memory, evidence and the night sky. Complete and standalone, from ThextonLabs. WHAT YOU GET - The complete novella (12,700 words, 49 pages) - EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play Books - 6x9 PDF that reads beautifully on any phone, tablet or computer HOW TO READ IT - Kindle: send the EPUB to your Kindle with the free Send to Kindle app or email - iPhone and iPad: open the EPUB in Apple Books - Android: open the EPUB in Google Play Books, or just open the PDF - Computer: open the PDF PLEASE NOTE - This is a DIGITAL download. Nothing physical will be shipped. - Personal use only: please don't share or resell the files. - Gentle and mysterious; suitable for most readers. Suitable for adult readers. - Written and designed by ThextonLabs with the help of AI tools, then edited and proofread.