BCC Shines A Light On: H.A. Eugene
BCC Shines a Light On:
H. A. Eugene
Name of the piece published by BCC:
When/where was it originally published:
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine
Tell us more about your piece! What is the background of the piece? What led you to write it? What’s your process?
I wanted to write about rolling down a hill. Certain pieces, I’ve found, benefit from letting the voice lead. For this story, the voice gave its subject matter a gravitas that I think germinated from those descriptions of increasingly weirder things passed in the character’s voyage. The result was something stranger than what I would have gotten had I created the piece using more top-down controls—basically it was a lot like rolling down a hill!
How did you feel when it was first published and how have your thoughts or feelings on the piece changed from then to now?
The story conveys such an odd sense of how life and death are bigger and stranger than our limited awareness allows us to perceive. For this reason, I think about “Rolling” every time I encounter death, in particular. So I think the story’s unusual perspective on the end of the corporate organism is mostly evergreen. I don’t think anything about the piece has changed in my mind.
Is there a specific message you would like readers to take away from reading this piece?
There’s a lot of weirdness inherent to normal things in “Rolling”—neighborhoods, countrysides. The sea. And it gets even weirder when it all breaks down. Because death is even weirder than life. Maybe a nice thing to take from all this is that your body is on an adventure separate from your self. And the various multitudes that make up who you are, are themselves, almost too atomic to describe.
What else would you like to tell readers about your writing? (Doesn’t have to refer only to your BCC piece)
I’m pretty funny for a guy who talks to himself and writes primarily about food, work, and death.
Where can readers find more of your work? (Website/social media, etc)
A complete list of my writing and publications may be found at haeugene.tv .
I can also be found at Bluesky @ autobono.bsky.social .
