...Three brothers traipse across a post-apocalyptic landscape, encountering unspeakable horrors......A young boy growing up in suburban hell thinks there might be more to his home town than meets the eye, what with all the children going missing......A woman dying of cancer is given a way out, if only she is willing to pay the price......The crew of a space station must battle their fears and a strange alien relic when they are isolated from humanity...if humanity exists any longer...These stories and more await inside the pages of The Gate: 13 Dark & Odd Tales, the new compilation by Robert J. Duperre, author of The Fall: The Rift Book I. Also contributing to this collection are the talented Mercedes M. Yardley, David Dalglish, David McAfee, and Daniel Pyle.