“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.
Tag: Earth
Poetry and other Writing related to the Planet Earth by BW Derge
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
Fiction Prose Writing
Chapter One: The Village on Laenif
From Laenif: Book 1, chapter one: “The Village on Laenif”
Fiction Prose Writing
To Another World, The Dreamer Dreamed (excerpt from Laenif: Book Two)
From Laenif: Book 2, “And the Sun Let Go” – chapter two: “To Another World, the Dreamer Dreamed”
Fiction Prose Writing
Troubled Midnight (excerpt from Laenif: Book One)
From Laenif: Book 1, chapter eight: “Troubled Midnight”
Fiction Prose Writing
An Excuse for Melancholy, in Three Parts
Short story written in 2024 by BW Derge, “An Excuse for Melancholy (In Three Parts)” – with part 1, The Incident in the Woods – Part 2, Let’s Discuss Over Some Tea – and Part 3, Reunification –
Jams Music
Unique Upside Down Tree Art – Improvised Music
Unique Upside Down Tree Art accompanied by music from BW Derge on drums and Nick Ring on guitar
Poetry Writing
This River Roaring Poem
“This River Roaring” – Poem by BW Derge from “Mars Jazz” – written in 2015, A babbling brook becomes a roaring river.
Fiction Prose Writing
In Another Iteration of the Universe: The Jogger in the Woods
A short story by BW Derge, written in 2022 – ‘In Another Iteration of the Universe: The Jogger in the Woods” – about how little choices can reverberate across multiple versions of the cosmos.
Poetry Writing
The Sun High Above Me
Poem by BW Derge from “Pillars of Salt: Book Three: A Doomed, Faceless, and Abstract Idea with Possible Deeper Meaning Presented through the Medium of Poetry” – 2004