Gabriel Gomes

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“The voice of departure” by Gabriel Gomes

Submitted to Contest #265

The voice of departure Gabriel Gomes Every day, Mr. Nobody kept to his morning routine. A warm black tea without sugar accompanied by toast on seeded bread smeared with vegetable cream. His greasy fingers gently caressed the pages of whatever historical novel he was reading. So far, no sentence had stirred him and his thoughts as much as the one fired off so brilliantly by the Portuguese Queen Elizabeth. "They're roses, sir" echoed repeatedly in the sometimes hollow, sometimes crowded penumbra of his mind. An empty mind that was the same as...

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Actor & Writer | Born in Viseu (PT), 1996. Graduated in Theater - Acting from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon, 2017). Made his acting debut in 2010 at Teatro Viriato in Viseu. Has been directed by Graeme Pulleyn, Márcio Meirelles, John Romão, and Giacomo Scalisi, José Maria Vieira Mendes and António Durães. Founded the theater company Ardemente (2016). Published the books “Éramos Nós, Uma Arma e Nós” (2016), “Antagónico” (2022) and “Temporário Eclipse Permanente” (2023), which he presented in Portugal, Luxembourg, Germany, Brazil and the United States of America. He has done dubbing for Netflix and Sic K. Coordinates theater and writing workshops in Portugal and abroad. Recently finished his Master's degree in Creative Writing at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra.