Status Updates From Night Shift

The narrator (Artie) and Cory have performed their descent onto Venus, only to find nothing. On the way back to Earth, they learn that space-exploration funds have been halved. Cory isn't very enthused, while Artie feels relieved. However, the return to Earth isn't very triumphant, as a crash-landing from a malfunction kills Cory and paralyzes Artie. Holy shit!

The man begins his story. He was an astronaut, sent by NASA with his friend Cory to orbit Venus in hopes of finding something. This mission was led by the deep space program, whose previous missions have all been unsuccessful, some resulting in death. Only Cory ever went outside the ship, but if he attracted anything out there, it was never picked up by the equipment. So the entity came from space? Yikes!

Just started reading the fourth story, "I Am the Doorway". A handicapped man claims he is the "doorway" to an entity that seems to take over his body, which just used him as a vessel to kill a boy. He wants to show his friend Richard the grave, but Richard asks him to tell the story of how he got involved with this entity. Looks like this man has a story to tell. Here we go!