Dustin Gillham

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2021

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“Just Let Me Go” by Dustin Gillham

It begins to snow again. Colin heaves piles of wood into the room and sits before the fire while drinking coffee. He turns off all the lights and sits in darkness for five minutes or more, not knowing if his eyes are open or closed.  Colin feels his way back into the bedroom, lights a small kerosene lamp on an adjacent nightstand, and takes it with him to climb up the attic ladder. He spits curses and grunts as ...

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“The Star of Our Show” by Dustin Gillham

You witness wild eyes fall upon you through splayed fingers, bringing about a sense of eerie disassociation. A couple of eager, round-skulled photographers capture you along the carpet towards the Palace of Festivals. Distended and broken arms sway with cameras like gothic trees in a fairy tale wood. You look up with hesitation and regard them without a smile. You maneuver out of the limousine and into the chaos.  <...

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“Jacob's Ladder” by Dustin Gillham

“Awake again?”  Bobby stares into the nurse’s pale blue eyes.  “Still trying to figure out if this is heaven or hell.”  He views her curves as she bends down to connect the IV.  He looks at the clouds beyond a tree in the window and then stares at her round bottom.  “Oh, and how could this be such a horrible place?”  “When you’re here, I get a glimpse of heaven.”  ...

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“The Preacher” by Dustin Gillham

The weather turns overnight. With the fall, the sky grows bluer than the preacher has ever known or can remember. He sits for an hour in the windy sedge with the sun on his back as if he is storing the warmth of it against the coming winter.  The leaves on the hardwood trees on the mountain burst into colorful flames, and then, ultimate nakedness. An early winter falls. An old wind sucks beneath the black and barren branches. The preacher is alone in the empty house and watches the bone-colored moon come crawling over a black...

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“The Devil Among Them” by Dustin Gillham

Are you there, God? It's me…  Daniella Dean screams a muffled plea beneath her taped mouth. Tears flow from her eyes. She hasn't eaten in days, and she doesn't know where she is or why he chose her. There were others that night he could have taken. Her best friend had been by her side. She recalls the fireworks and the eerie feeling she had just before he took her..  The dev...

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Author bio

Dustin received his bachelor's degree in comparative religions from Reed College in Portland Oregon. His thesis was written on postmodern Biblical interpretation and hermeneutics. After his undergraduate studies, Dustin worked on a doctorate in philosophy with a minor in biology at Portland State University and completed two years of law school in Santa Rosa, California. Residing in beautiful Douglas County, Oregon, Dustin continues to pursue his passion as a writer.