Mysteries Beyond The Gate & other peculiar short stories Expect the unexpected in Mysteries Beyond The Gate & other peculiar short stories. Life is not always what it seems as you'll soon discover. These stories reveal that sometimes down is up, black is white and truth may be hidden in folly. Through the delightful art of storytelling, author Matt Rawlins reveals delicious nuggets of truth that you will savor long after you finish reading. Some tales will defy your reality. Others will alter how you see the world around you. But each one will challenge your thinking oConsider the implications of living in utter darkness, then discovering one day that there is a mysterious something called light. How would you find it? oTake the festering resentment we call a grudge, and raise it to be your constant companion. In the end, it threatens your life. Will you continue feeding it? oWhat would it be like to sing before the greatest audience of all? oWould you change the way you live your life if you knew for sure where a phenomenal treasure was buried? oWhat if you could make a wish - any wish - and it would be granted. Do you know what you would wish for? oHow could the world's greatest coach train us through discipline and then only in our failure, truly teach us? These and Rawlins' other modern-day parables will whet your appetite for the bigger questions of life. Stories have been with us from the creation of time. They have given us some of our most cherished truths about life. They form the framework of much of what we do that gives us hope and encouragement. In Mysteries Beyond The Gate & other peculiar short stories, Rawlins toys with your thinking, like a cat playing with a mouse, then jump-starts your mind and stimulates your belief system.