After an assassination attempt leaves Dr. Emmett Gilbert in a coma, the immunologist on the verge of curing leukemia awakens somewhere impossible.
Not dead.
Not alive.
Trapped inside a shifting dreamscape.
While his brother Josh and wife Crystal fight to keep him alive, Emmett searches for a path back through an illogical world where reality bends and time collapses.
There he meets Ng, a D.O.R.E. agent tasked with guiding the lost, and Kenna, a mother desperate to return to her daughter.
But the deeper they go, the more terrifying the truth becomes.
D.O.R.E. isn't just observing dreams.
It's controlling them.
People's Choice Award Winner NHWP '25
New York City’s remains are evidence of World War III battles hard lost, but it’s not over yet.
M.A.I.A. (Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Agency) emerges from the bunkers of Governor’s Island fostering elite AI soldiers whose mind chips read thoughts and controls memories with the 19-84 Vanishing Sequence.
When Sniper Alix Basil recovers a forbidden memory, he threatens Supreme Reader, Albert Rankin’s totalitarian ambitions for dominating the minds of men. Veterans, opposing 19-84, scheme to extract Alix before his mind is erased and ignite a new war–against AI.
Will Alix, his love for Anna, a sharp shooting medic, and their simulation training be enough to resist M.A.I.A.’s memory erasing program and survive a bullet-riddled world?
Find out in this Dystopian AI Military Thriller!
Published by PortalStar Publishing
Department Of Reverie Experiences
Spring 2026
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Residing in New Hampshire, Bill received his BLA in History and Creative Writing from Umass Lowell (UML); several pieces he wrote are published in “The Offering,” a UML annual student collection book.
Bill’s a motivated entrepreneur, an account executive in software sales, a husband, a father, and a novelist.
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