One year and 116 posts later, let’s review art in 2024 featuring writings and music by BW Derge along with Nick Ring on the guitar.
Prose
Prose written by pros – fiction, essays, and miscellaneous non-poetry writing
Fiction Prose Writing
A Vision of the Future: Your Holographic Dating Service
Short story by BW Derge, written in 2024 – A vision of the future where an experimental dating service creates digital projections of potential suitors, who are much more revealing than their real life counterparts.
Fiction Prose Writing
Top 25 Best Christmas Movies to Watch in 2024 Holiday Season
This is my extremely biased opinion of holiday movies I like to watch on Christmas (Saturnalia). This is not a list of the best holiday movies or even best Christmas movies – just the fun ones I’ve liked popping on while caught up in the holiday season – which I do not get too excited about like with Halloween. Check out the best scary, alternative, classic, and comedic holiday films, plus the best Christmas movies for kids.
Fiction Prose Writing
Short Story: The Quest of the Last Payphone
A re-write of a short story first written in 2005, originally titled “Mr. Payphone’s Quest.” As the use and prevalence of payphones has greatly diminished the past 2 decades, it is now about one of the last payphones left in America and how it came to life to go on one of the greatest quests ever
Fiction Prose Writing
Remember Me, Nothing: Brass Jazz (Excerpt from Upcoming Novel)
Excerpt from “Remember Me, Nothing” (new novel to be released in 2025) chapter Sixteen: “Brass Jazz”
Mix Playlists Music Prose Writing
Top Fiona Apple Songs, with Playlist, Genres, and Albums
Fiona Apple Songs, genre exploration, and ranking her five studio albums. What are the best Fiona Apple Songs? Check out the Amazon Music Playlist, “Fiona Apple of My Eye” below.
Fiction Prose Writing
Tragedy at the Sky Lovers Skydiving Center (A Short Story)
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 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.
Fiction Poetry Prose Writing
And the Sun Let Go: Chapter One: Between the Cracks
From Laenif: Book 2, “And the Sun Let Go” – chapter One: “Between the Cracks”