Portals of the Mind

"See those little circles there? Those are portals to another dimension." After this wild declaration, 14-year-old Max's Weird Uncle Bob disappears. Then the teen receives strange messages over his electronic devices. He believes they are from his uncle, who has traveled beyond the boundaries of our known universe-a plane of existence that Max intends to visit. "The Portals" begins this eclectic collection of short fiction with a mixture of genres including science fiction, horror, fantasy,...