Gideon Bleak

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

Stories (3)

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“Eschatorus” by Gideon Bleak

Submitted to Contest #243

  Cosmically speaking, your death and your birth very much happened in the same instance. And for that I harbor a profound regret, which demands an apology so grand that its full weight may well elude your comprehension.   When we, the architects of that universe, believed our labor complete, a consensus was met: it was a beguiling creation, beautiful in its simplicity. It was not devoid of complexity, but rather employed it when useful. Everything it needed was all bundled up together in one little space. And space was quite simply all it n...

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“Mischances” by Gideon Bleak

Submitted to Contest #241

  Jake was determined to scientifically prove that all his bad luck was the result of some unseen quantum complication — that somewhere in his DNA was a chunk of dark matter weighing down his whole existence.   It was the ungodly hour of 4 a.m., and he was casting long shadows as he finished soldering a complex electrical component, the third in a series of three. Each did the same thing with a slight variation. He figured his notorious luck might be able to break two, but not three, before tomorrow’s test run. T...

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“Down” by Gideon Bleak

Submitted to Contest #239

   The damn feathers were falling from the sky again, pure white and everywhere. Abby brushed one from her face and returned to massaging her sore shoulder. Jake had refused a place in his carseat and was pouring all of his two-year-old energy into his new favorite pastime.   “3-2-1 blastoff!” he yelled.    Abby sprang into her part of this game and pulled him from the air after a launch from the back door of her aging maroon SUV. He always gave himself to the wind, fully expecting someone to catch him. Any more countdowns and...

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Author bio

Gideon Bleak is an umbral nomad in the USA that periodically emerges from the shadows with some strange story to tell. He's often observed bumping into stationary objects, thoughtblind in contemplation of the human obsession with who we are and how we got here.