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Tag: Short Story
Short stories written by BW Derge and possibly contributors to BWDerge.com
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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
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
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.
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String Theories and Chakras in 26 Dimensions
A short story written in 2024. Entitled “String Theories and Chakras in 26 Dimensions,” it details a fictional conversation between a math professor and a young scientist about string theory
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A Short Story called “Shoot” by BW Derge
A short story originally written in 2007, reimagined in 2024. Entitled “Shoot,” it is about 2 hunters and their dog in the final days of what seems to be a somewhat long trip in the wilderness that the two old men enjoy… Shoot.
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Short Story: The Doctor’s Dark Satchel (2008)
A short story originally written in 2008 at the College of Santa Fe, “The Doctor’s Dark Satchel” shows a somber, off-beat universe that, for possibly just a moment, you’d like to inhabit. Like the dark streets it describes, it is a journey through the shadows of human desire.
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No Bullets, Please. (A Short Story)
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…
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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.
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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.