The Molybdenum Age

About the Book

“Well, I don’t know much about molybdenum, and I wouldn’t put it past them. But it’s a fact they had a lot of money from way back, back before I reckon folks knew anything about molybdenum. The way I hear it in the old days the Faerids weren’t so mysterious, they used to just come and go as they pleased in the middle of the day, back in the time of Charlie Faer, old man Faer’s granddad. And he was on real friendly terms with them, as likely as not he was more than half Faerid himself, and he picked up on more than a few of their tricks, he did. They say he could reach out and touch a thing with his little finger and turn it to gold.” Al demonstrated as he spoke. “And this here finger he could use to turn things to cherry red, and the long one was for aquamarine, and the pointer finger made things violet. They say he made a fortune painting billboards. “But that’s not all, not by a long shot. They say he knew the old songs, for everything from changing the weather to getting rid of warts to making brownies. And you never knew when he was going to show up, ‘cause he could just come and go as he pleased with nothing more than a snap of his fingers. You just never knew.”

About the Author

Chris Cox lives in East Peoria, Illinois, with his chocolate lab Johnny and dachshund Peechuz. When not teaching math at Illinois Central College or writing novels, Mr. Cox spends most of his time searching for the Lost Catacombs.