In the rush of daily life, finding moments of calm can feel like a challenge. Meditation and journaling are often recommended as ways to unwind, but there’s another simple, creative tool that can bring a sense of tranquility —doodling.
Prose
Prose written by pros – fiction, essays, and miscellaneous non-poetry writing
Fiction Prose Writing
Untitled Mini-Series About Steve: Part Two (Going Dental)
Part Two of an untitled mini-series about a character named Steve, a young college student with ambitions of being a writer. Written in 2009 at the College of Santa Fe by BW Derge. “Going Dental”
Prose Writing
Cosmic Expanse: The Distance Between Stars and the Intergalactic Medium
Is space travel to other stars, or other galaxies, within the realm of possibility?
Fiction Prose Writing
Untitled Mini-Series About Steve: Part One (Hello)
Part One of an untitled mini-series about a character named Steve, a young college student with ambitions of being a writer. Written in 2009 at the College of Santa Fe by BW Derge. “Hello”
Prose Writing
How to Deal with Existential Dread : 10 Strategies
Top 10 Strategies for Dealing with Existential Dread: Existential dread can creep in when you least expect it—a quiet moment, a sleepless night, or even in the middle of a busy day.
Fiction Prose Writing
Push the Button: Reality is as Limitless as a Dream
Written in 2025, “Push the Button: Reality is as Limitless as a Dream” is a short story by BW Derge about a couple traversing across multiple universes, grappling with the fragility of their existence and the seeming futility of life. Would you push the button, knowing reality is as limitless as a dream?
Fiction Prose Writing
Original Short Story: The Goddess of the Oceanic Realm
A weird short story strewn together from two pages of rambling, practically incoherent, nonsense trying to become a tale. Most of this was rewritten recently, and it became a weird story about a shipwrecked World War II pilot, a shark, and a goddess of the sea.
Prose Writing
The Cosmic Tragedy of Existence: A Quasi-Philosophical Rambling Essay
Originally written in 2006, a philosophical ponderance on humanity’s position in the cosmic hierarchy of existence and whether or not we are doomed to be caught in an endlessly tragic state of affairs, both on an individual and societal scale.
Prose Writing
10 Great Books to Add to Your Reading List
Books to add to your reading list. The top 5 novels and the top 5 non-fiction books that left a strong impression on me – whether it was inspirational for my own writing or just significantly altered my perspective.
Fiction Prose Writing
The Orchestra of a Psycho’s Psyche: Julius (Short Story)
A re-write of the first short story I wrote in 2007 while studying creative writing at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. Originally titled “The Orchestra of a Psyche,” the story is about a disturbed individual who has rejected humanity (besides his roommate Bruce) in favor of life in a swamp, where Julius makes jewelry out of pig bones…