Four complete stories of apocalyptic disasters that befall the citizens of the United States by one of America's most popular apocalyptic fiction writers. Read how some Americans rise up to meet the challenges and fight to survive when disaster strikes. In What? The sun did all this! a massively strong CME that strikes the earth destroying the electric grid and most electric devices. One man attempts to reunite with his scattered family. In Surviving in Trying Times one middle aged couple try to cope with what becomes something like the second great depression. In Relax It's Just the Flu a massive pandemic of a deadly strain of the flu wreaks havoc to the USA. This story follows a few of the survivors. In Global Warming (It's real this time) a young man struggles to survive twenty years after a man made accident actually does cause massive global warming.