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This short story explores the grey zone between waking and dreaming. A mysterious machine suddenly appears in Joe Smith’s bedsit. Joe is a simple man, disfigured by a botched hare lip operation, who works as a toilet cleaner. At first, the machine appears to offer Joe an opportunity to change his miserable life. But gradually the situation changes, and what the machine has to offer turns into a terrible nightmare …

When a number of children in a quiet coastal village start to fall ill without any recognisable cause, their concerned parents have no idea of what is going on in passageways below the ground. Helped by a few 'initiated' adults, including 12-year old Erik, the animagi – toys which have been given life through love from their human hosts – embark on an epic adventure which will take them into another world. Can witch Hexybilla and her team find the correct spells to open the portal to Animagana?

Ross Stubbard is a failed, angry, and depressed writer who struggles to find inspiration for his next book. One night a strange apparition stands by his bedside – an apparition that embodies Ross’s ghostly alter ego. The apparition urges Ross to write a short story. At first, working with the apparition helps Ross to rediscover his lost writing skills, get him out of his writer’s block, and to develop a gripping story. But then what his alter ego suggests takes on a much darker hue and urges Ross to write a tale of darkness and despair based on himself and his own failed life.