{"id":31502,"date":"2018-12-19T00:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502"},"modified":"2019-01-08T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:12:45","slug":"the-outliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502","title":{"rendered":"The Outliers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Outliers\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_egfxftJS24je4X&#038;asin=B07LF2ZKPH&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>A collection of short stories<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An outlier is something or someone that lies outside of the main group that it\u2019s a part of. In this collection of short stories, the outliers are people who don\u2019t fit into our consensus reality. They\u2019re anomalies, weirdos, individuals whose experiences are vastly different from the rest of us. And yet, they are us in their humanity, their emotions, and in their curiosity that asks, What if? The stories begin with a novella in which a paranormal investigator looks into a bizarre story about a secret federal law enforcement team that pursues their cases while out-of-body. It ends with the story of a First Lady who hold seances in the White House. In between are more tales of outliers, more strangeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rob and I haven&#8217;t collaborated on fiction before. But we realized we had some short stories and novellas that could be combined into a collection that would fit the idea of outliers.\u00a0 These people aren&#8217;t quite like those in Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s book <em>Outliers: The Story of Success<\/em>. They&#8217;re a a different breed\u00a0 &#8211; psychic misfits, weirdos, people with a lot to lose or gain. Do they succeed in their quests?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the short stories are reprints that appeared first in other anthologies, but there&#8217;s plenty of original material in here, too. The writing and organization were fun and now we have our end of 2018 book. Onward into 2019!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outlier is something or someone that lies outside of the main group that it\u2019s a part of. In this collection of short stories, the outliers are people who don\u2019t fit into our consensus reality. They\u2019re anomalies, weirdos, individuals whose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[1963,1174,1946,1462],"class_list":["post-31502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-synchronicity","tag-outliers","tag-psychics","tag-short-stories","tag-the-paranormal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Outliers - Welcome to The Mystical Underground<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Outliers - Welcome to The Mystical Underground\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An outlier is something or someone that lies outside of the main group that it\u2019s a part of. In this collection of short stories, the outliers are people who don\u2019t fit into our consensus reality. They\u2019re anomalies, weirdos, individuals whose &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Welcome to The Mystical Underground\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/trishmacgregor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-19T05:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-01-08T05:12:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Trish and Rob\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Trish and Rob\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Trish and Rob\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/dafc2c80b2d103bab7e8264483160918\"},\"headline\":\"The Outliers\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-19T05:25:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-08T05:12:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"outliers\",\"psychics\",\"short stories\",\"the paranormal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"synchronicity\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502\",\"name\":\"The Outliers - Welcome to The Mystical Underground\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-19T05:25:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-08T05:12:45+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?p=31502#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Outliers\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Welcome to The Mystical Underground\",\"description\":\"SYNCHRONICITY\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Welcome to The Mystical Underground\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/shift1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/shift1.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":768,\"caption\":\"Welcome to The Mystical Underground\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/facebook.com\\\/trishmacgregor\",\"https:\\\/\\\/instagram.com\\\/trishandrobmacgregor\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/dafc2c80b2d103bab7e8264483160918\",\"name\":\"Trish and Rob\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7d20cd13f9fba2c96ecb485d026ae626dff9793f92d1becd3eb1cfc20bee1695?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7d20cd13f9fba2c96ecb485d026ae626dff9793f92d1becd3eb1cfc20bee1695?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7d20cd13f9fba2c96ecb485d026ae626dff9793f92d1becd3eb1cfc20bee1695?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Trish and Rob\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/themysticalunderground.com\\\/?author=5\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Outliers - Welcome to The Mystical Underground","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Outliers - Welcome to The Mystical Underground","og_description":"An outlier is something or someone that lies outside of the main group that it\u2019s a part of. In this collection of short stories, the outliers are people who don\u2019t fit into our consensus reality. They\u2019re anomalies, weirdos, individuals whose &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","og_url":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502","og_site_name":"Welcome to The Mystical Underground","article_publisher":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/trishmacgregor","article_published_time":"2018-12-19T05:25:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-01-08T05:12:45+00:00","author":"Trish and Rob","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Trish and Rob","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502"},"author":{"name":"Trish and Rob","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dafc2c80b2d103bab7e8264483160918"},"headline":"The Outliers","datePublished":"2018-12-19T05:25:17+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-08T05:12:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502"},"wordCount":265,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["outliers","psychics","short stories","the paranormal"],"articleSection":["synchronicity"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502","url":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502","name":"The Outliers - Welcome to The Mystical Underground","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-12-19T05:25:17+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-08T05:12:45+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=31502#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Outliers"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/","name":"Welcome to The Mystical Underground","description":"SYNCHRONICITY","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#organization","name":"Welcome to The Mystical Underground","url":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shift1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shift1.jpg","width":700,"height":768,"caption":"Welcome to The Mystical Underground"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/facebook.com\/trishmacgregor","https:\/\/instagram.com\/trishandrobmacgregor"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dafc2c80b2d103bab7e8264483160918","name":"Trish and Rob","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d20cd13f9fba2c96ecb485d026ae626dff9793f92d1becd3eb1cfc20bee1695?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d20cd13f9fba2c96ecb485d026ae626dff9793f92d1becd3eb1cfc20bee1695?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d20cd13f9fba2c96ecb485d026ae626dff9793f92d1becd3eb1cfc20bee1695?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Trish and Rob"},"url":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?author=5"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31502"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31521,"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502\/revisions\/31521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}