You should know that you’re never safe. Events that may change or end your life could happen to you anytime, anywhere. Your age, gender or social status don’t matter. Your feelings toward others, your will to live, your viewpoints and beliefs are of no relevance. 

Bleak is a compilation of ten tales from different times and parts of the world. And if there’s a lesson to be taken from them, it is this: 

If something bleak ever happens to you, there’s nothing you can do about it. So you may as well relax.