(Novelette, Fiction, Quick-Read) The season of witches and jack-o-lanterns finally arrives, but young Alison can't seem to enjoy her favorite holiday due to her stressful home life. The day she storms out of her house, the girl stumbles upon a whole new world, a realm made of all of her greatest dreams come true. Will she remain in the new world, or return to her family back home?

The predictions made by the fanatical conspiracy theorists and doomsday preppers, wild as they were, turned out to hold more legitimacy than anyone wanted to think. As eighteen year old Sandra is on her way to school, she ignores the lectures about disaster preparedness made by her eccentric uncle, Dorian. Sandra endures yet another boring day at school, until her uncle's paranoid theories begin to unfold before her very eyes. With a new flu plaguing society and with cities being bombed by attackers unknown, Sandra and her friends flee the school, only to find that her Uncle Dorian is missing from her home. When the skies fall silent and when the town becomes empty, Sandra steps outside, intent on finding her uncle and ready to embark on a perilous journey to Dorian's legendary bugout location, a mysterious, secluded civilization called Sanctum.