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…
Tag: death
Death gets us all in the end. Here are poems and prose by BW Derge that mentions death. I want my tombstone to say “Who’s Healthy Now??”
Mix Playlists Music
Mix Playlist (10.2): A Rider’s Ride (Keeps Riding, from 2006)
This mix has some of my favorite songs of all time, including Pushit by Tool, Cicatriz ESP by The Mars Volta, and Nothing Even Matters by Lauryn Hill.
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.
Prose Writing
HG Wells Was a Time Traveler (Slingshot Time Travel)
Read this letter from HG Wells, written in 2021 – PROVING he was a time traveler. Man goes into shed, disappears, and reemerges a day later as an old man.
Mix Playlists Music
Mix Playlist 44: Anew Day
Playlist from 2016 compiled by BW Derge, featuring Puscifer, System of a Down, Mary Lambert, and more!
Prose Writing
Infinite Loops in Thinking About Thinking
Random thoughts from 2009 about thinking and consciousness. Philosophical ramblings on the infinite loops that arise when thinking about thinking.
Fiction Prose Writing
Don’t Touch the Water When the World Ends – Short Story
“Don’t Touch the Water When the World Ends,” a short story by BW Derge written in 2024, is a glimpse at an apocalypse where the Earth is drowned by toxic oceans. The last living human lies in a canoe, hope no longer exists, the last inhabited house floods, and discussions of the immense time and uncertainty involved with direct panspermia.
Poetry Writing
Two Ducks on the Open Sea (Or, ‘Quack’)
“Two Ducks on the Open Sea (Or, ‘Quack’) – Poem by BW Derge from “The Sun Will Eat You, Too – written in 2023
Poetry Writing
12 Rules for Manifestations of Consciousness with the Illusion of Creation
“Rules for Manifestations of Consciousness Consumed with the Illusion of Creation – is the title Poem from “Manifestations of Consciousness (Or, More Fucking Poems)” – written in 2007 by BW Derge
Poetry Writing
A Cosmic Shore (Poem by BW Derge)
“A Cosmic Shore – Poem by BW Derge from “Pillars of Salt, Book Two: Fuck Your Tea and Crumpets” – written in 2004