A short story by BW Derge about a skydiving accident that is told in three parts, each one featuring one of the components of tandem skydiving equipment. Tragedy strikes as equipment malfunction dooms a troubled instructor’s first jump with a customer.
Fiction
Fiction By BW Derge
Fiction Prose Writing
25 Best Horror Movies to Watch on Halloween
This is my extremely biased opinion of scary movies I like to watch on Halloween. This is not a list of scariest movies or even best horror movies – just the fun ones I’ve liked popping on after a night of partying or trick-or-treating. Check out the best slashers, psychological, classic, comedic, and the best ones for (older) kids.
Fiction Prose Writing
The Dark Ages II: St. John’s Coffee Master – A Short Story
A post-apocalyptic short story about a village that survives on the ruins of an old cathedral, the only remaining building centuries after the nuclear wars. Brother John and Brother Paul are in search for electricity – the magic of the old times.
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And the Sun Let Go: Chapter One: Between the Cracks
From Laenif: Book 2, “And the Sun Let Go” – chapter One: “Between the Cracks”
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Chapter 13: The Bodhisattva (excerpt from Laenif: Book One)
From Laenif: Book 1, chapter 13: “The Bodhisattva” depicts an individual struggling with a messiah complex that is slowly consuming them. The Bodhisattva can only look on with compassionate confusion…
Fiction Prose Writing
String Theories and Chakras in 26 Dimensions
A short story written in 2024. Entitled “String Theories and Chakras in 26 Dimensions,” it details a fictional conversation between a math professor and a young scientist about string theory
Fiction Prose Writing
A Short Story called “Shoot” by BW Derge
A short story originally written in 2007, reimagined in 2024. Entitled “Shoot,” it is about 2 hunters and their dog in the final days of what seems to be a somewhat long trip in the wilderness that the two old men enjoy… Shoot.
Fiction Prose Writing
Short Story: The Doctor’s Dark Satchel (2008)
A short story originally written in 2008 at the College of Santa Fe, “The Doctor’s Dark Satchel” shows a somber, off-beat universe that, for possibly just a moment, you’d like to inhabit. Like the dark streets it describes, it is a journey through the shadows of human desire.
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No Bullets, Please. (A Short Story)
Written in 2024, taking place at pawn shop around 2014, “No Bullets, Please” is a short story by BW Derge about a customer named Jimmy, a store owner that goes by Dean, and a college girl shopping for a film camera. This is a reimagining of a similar short story written around the time this one takes place…
Fiction Prose Writing
Oblivious Summer (It Falls On All Our Shoulders)
Short story written in 2012. Inspired by the novels by Henry Green, who wrote wonderful novels about rich British people with ugly complex souls, mostly taking place in 1940s England.