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These stories are also published as individual short stories or small collections and have now been brought together.

Portals are opening up all over the place.

Introducing a man with hypnotic methods that can lay your mind out like an open book. Doctor Wolfstone knows more about his clients than they will ever know about themselves. He can find their demons and try to get them out.

An Oklahoma tornado drops from the sky to sweep up Sully Jacobson and his car. Weeks later, he awakes from a coma with a crippling fear of driving. Horrid visions resist Sully's attempts at facing his fear, and glowing people haunt his dreams. Meanwhile, loved ones are keeping secrets from him, and people are dying. Can Sully find a vital connection in all of this, or will the deaths continue?

A ghost story on a maternity ward.

Psychologist Jonah Singer has a few issues of his own. He has obsessive-compulsive disorder, chain smokes, and is haunted by a blurry past with a crazy mother. Enter Tate Powers, a mental-health counselor with a wicked laugh and uncanny ability to get inside Jonah’s head. Tate shows him the path to the most horrific depths of the human psyche. Inside his mind, Jonah will find much more than the tools to heal. He’ll engage in a battle that goes far beyond him, with ramifications for the entire planet.

After his parents die, Stephen Seibert, 13-years old, is forced to live with his uncle. Uncle Rick, a former jock, has little interest in the brainy Stephen, but dreams of developing Stephen’s older brother, Jonnie, into a great quarterback. All of this could be acceptable to Stephen. He doesn’t mind being ignored. Unfortunately, Luke, Stephen’s older cousin, has taken a sinister interest in him, forcing Steven to hide for most of the day. To make matters worse, Stephen senses another presence, something either supernatural or part of his mind breaking with reality.

Amos Lee has never played well with others. He prefers to live his life alone. When the mother he’s never known dies and leaves him a remote trailer house on a few country acres, he jumps at the chance to live life as a hermit. But there seems to be more to this property than he bargained for. Memories he thought were gone return, bringing feelings he didn’t know he had. A couple of people from the area seem way too interested in him. He’s hearing and seeing things that can’t be real. What has gotten into him? Can he survive it?

Toby and Dad live alone in the countryside. For all they know, they live alone on the planet. They carefully watch the skies for the beasts that nearly wiped out humanity. They’ve managed to safely hide for years, but things are starting to change. There are fires on the ground and birds falling from the sky.