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Overcome financial anxiety and transform your retirement planning into a roadmap for lasting wealth and freedom. Whether you are transitioning out of the workforce or already navigating your post-career life, the fear of outliving your savings or losing your identity can be paralyzing. It is...

The year is 2028. Location: The Chihuahuan Desert. Cade and his best friend Ricardo are Rig-Hands, just trying to collect a paycheck and get by. But one day, their company's massive, record breaking drill breaks down. They learn that the drill is broken, and the oil rig crew must venture deep beneath the ground to retrieve the expensive drill bits that make up the machine. Without them, they cannot drill any further. What they find underneath the soil was never meant to be seen by human eyes. But that isn't the extent of things.

A group of boys go out into the cereal field to play an innocent game of flashlight tag. But something is lurking in the field with them, and it's ready to tear the boys apart. Will the boys escape with their bodies intact, or will the Field of Fiends hide their corpses for someone else to stumble over?

Halloween is a holiday of fright, a time to dress up and go house to house for candy, a time for fun. But what happens when you don’t follow the rules? Nicholas Gray presents five Halloween tales to get you in the spirit and cover your arms in goosebumps. Three friends are in for a trick-or-treat surprise. A surly boy goes trick-or-treating to the wrong house. A grumpy old man gets a special Halloween visitor. A man goes shopping for a Halloween mask. And some bored teenagers go on a vandalism spree.

Young Troy is sick of his parents fighting. Even while camping on a supposed vacation, all his parents seem to do is bicker. Troy has had enough of it. He storms out of the camper and runs out into the neighboring woods, where he stumbles over something horrifying. His parents are too wrapped up in an argument to notice their only child is missing. Is it too late?

One boy finds a portal in the woods. At first, it’s all fun and games, but things quickly take a turn. A man discovers why his company no longer allows smoking on the premises. Another man finds a video tape that changes his perspective on the world around him. And three boys go trunk-or-treating, but they come across something that will change their lives forever! Graymatter is a chilling collection of horror shorts sure to keep you up late. These tales are sure to have something for everyone.

Gavin has cancer, which sucks. He's run out of options and must try a trial drug in order to fight it off. He's wheeled into a ward and starts his treatment of Donozine, but what Gavin doesn't know is there is something else in the ward with him, and the thing is hungry! This is a cancer story that personifies my fear during my chemotherapy treatments.

It's all fiction, but then the ceiling bends and twists until a blue light shines through. You don't understand, but you know you should run. Your body won't allow you to move. An incredible force holds you in place. Fight or Flight is no longer an option. You are now in a frozen state, a fawn blinded by headlights. Then, you feel lighter and lighter until you realize everything is moving past you as if you were quickly going through a fast growth spurt. But no, that isn't possible. That can't be it. You aren't growing. No, that isn't it at all. You are levitating towards the ceiling.