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Tag: humanity
Humanity – if you’re reading this, you might be one. Here’s writing, poetry, and essays on humanity by BW Derge
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.
Poetry Writing
Poetry is a Waste of Money – from “Everywhere But Elsewhere”
poetry is a waste of money!!
Fiction Prose Writing
The Airport on Earth (excerpt from ‘And the Sun Let Go’)
From Laenif: Book 2, “And the Sun Let Go” – chapter Eight: “The Airport on Earth”
Jams Music
No Face from Spirited Away Improvised Music
Improvised Music Inspired by No-Face from Spirited Away and Pink Floyd’s “Fearless,” recording Thanksgiving day 2019 in Maryland.
Poetry Writing
Poem: On Sale (This Weekend Only)
“On Sale” – Poem by BW Derge from “Manifestations of Consciousness (or, More Fucking Poems)” – written in 2009
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
Fiction Prose Writing
Chapter One: The Village on Laenif
From Laenif: Book 1, chapter one: “The Village on Laenif”