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Jon Berger

@bergerbomb44.bsky.social
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McDonald’s ice cream machine that writes. Author of Goon Dog and Saint Lizard. Both available at Gob Pile Press.

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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hashtag watching Point Break while doing kettlebell workouts in my underwear. Fucking around with knives and nunchucks between sets. Sponsored by Orange Cream Ghost energy drink
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Sorry but I’m not sure what a horse is and I’m not sure what you mean when you say E question. Is that your accent or your speech impediment?
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O F SCARY @ossuary.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I’ve been marinating in culture for the past ten years. You’re welcome.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I am the Jack Reacher teacher of grading essays.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’m the doom guy of eating chicken bacon ranch wraps
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Sorry babe, but I’ve taken a sacred vow to abstain from dating social workers.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
These new jimmy johns toasted sandwiches are starting to piss me off. I only like my sandwiches cold. It might be time for me to enter the fast food wars again. I’m like the John wick of the fast food corpo wars and the toasted jimmy johns sandwiches are my dead dog.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I always order a glass bottle of orange Fanta at the Mexican restaurant I live across the street from. This one waiter always presents the bottle to me like it’s a fine wine from the 1800s. I nod with approval before he pours it into a glass of ice. This is the only way I’ll drink Fanta now.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Sometimes you have to create a militant anarchism group in order to destabilize the populace of a small town.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My idea of the perfect haircut is going to the barbershop, sitting in the chair, the barber punches me in the face as hard as he can and everyone laughs then I pay him $20 and walk home with guilt and embarrassment.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A coworker invited me to their family Easter thing today. I’m going. I’ll be there, just like a normal human. Can’t wait to find and stomp all the goblin eggs. Hopefully I can find their lair and slaughter them all.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Jim Harrison Murakami Tadao Tsuge Donald Ray Pollock Kafka
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So friggin stoked to share “Not Dark Yet” with you fine folks. Big thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for believing, and publishing this bad boy in Short Story, Long today. A dark dream come true. open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...
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"Not Dark Yet" by Sheldon Birnie
"Mitch stumbles into the pub that was attached to the motel, which doubled as the town gas station, late Friday afternoon, breathless and sweating despite the frigid cold..."
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If goblins could own any vehicle it would be a jeep. They’re obsessed with mechanized junk. I would know. I slay goblins for a hobby.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Teaching note: do not attempt to teach 16 year olds about ego death.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I do not have a girlfriend
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hashtag just picked up a wooden entertainment center, carried it down two flights of stairs and threw it into a dumpster. Time to walk a mile to the bowling alley in below freezing temps so I can drink Busch light.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I was repping out glorious 90 pound skull crushers when the gym owners dog started licking my ear. The ultimate training partner to master the zen art lifting heavy weights over your stupid face.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I’m going to write a fantasy book that has crab people in it. Everything is evolving into a crab so it makes sense. Might even go crazy and make zombie crab people.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Over edited a story last night. Forced the dialogue. Now my narrator comes off like a huge piece of shit. A horrible person who everyone hates. Gotta stop basing all of my narrators on my real life persona.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The girls who live above me are having a Sunday night screaming party. I can hear the faint sound of a horror movie on the tv then they randomly scream and stomp around. Frank Lloyd Wright did not design my apartment. I could’ve designed my apartment, dude. A novel
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s a snow day. I have two copies of Saint Lizard and one copy of Goon Dog available for you. You’re welcome.
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andrew rivas @andrew-rivas.com · 16/01/2025
SUICIDE: AN ANTHOLOGY, via House of Vlad Press This has been on my TBR pile for ages, but I’ve been putting it off because I thought it might be triggering. I was right, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check it out.
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andrew rivas @andrew-rivas.com · 16/01/2025
“Favorite” Stories: “Brad’s Back on his Bullshit,” by Brad Phillips, “Partial Suicide,” by @troyjamesweaver.bsky.social, “That’s Enough,” by @charleneelsby.bsky.social, “Slime Brain,” by @bergerbomb44.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Suicide-Anth...
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Suicide: An Anthology
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I’m very proud to be included in this anthology. Great to see people reading and connecting with it.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Oh, hello Bluesky friends. I have 3 copies of Goon Dog and 4 copies of Saint Lizard available. I’ll sell as a deluxe bundle package if bought together.
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Wrote a scene where the protagonist is at a fancy jazz bar and opens his mouth and emits a laser beam that incinerates the head of lawyer who won’t stop talking to him.
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kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
hey @bergerbomb44.bsky.social
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Kyle is a devout follower in the teachings of Saint Lizard.
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kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
fully lizard pilled, totally berger bombed. worth the wait, @bergerbomb44.bsky.social
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Saint Lizard has risen.
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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
BAD FOUNDATIONS, the latest novel by Brian Allen Carr, is out now via @clashbooks.bsky.social 💥 Here in our review Robert Warf gets to the bottom of it all 🕳️ southwestreview.com/we-see-what-...
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We See What We Want to See | Brian Allen Carr’s Bad Foundations
By Robert Warf
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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
First drop from the winter issue is live! 💥 Read THE PEACEMAKER, a career-spanning look at the work of Cormac McCarthy, by Luis Jorge Boone (trans. Christina MacSweeney) 🐎 southwestreview.com/volume-108-n...
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The Peacemaker | Notes on the Work of Cormac McCarthy
By Luis Jorge Boone
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
You can pre order saint lizard here. I’ll know if you don’t. gobpilepress.bigcartel.com
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Gob Pile Press
Gob Pile Press is a small publisher in SE Ohio with a focus on shorter books of poems and stories concerning an idea of place. A new little city of...
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I have an excerpt from a bigger project I’m working on in House of Vlad Issue 2. Check it out. When society collapses carpet cleaners will reign supreme. houseofvladpress.com/vlad-mag-%23...
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Hey, bud. Buy my book, buddy. malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Goon Dog is still lurking in the wasteland of grinning shadows and McDonald’s play area ball pits. gobpilepress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...
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Farewell Transmission Lit @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Today we have Pothole Eyes by @bergerbomb44.bsky.social farewelltransmission.net/2023/10/poth...
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
New poem up today @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social about delivering tools and monsters from the abyss. From forthcoming collection Saint Lizard. Thank you @tenhoeve.bsky.social
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Saint Lizard loot drop
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max hipp @maxissippi.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Look how affordable and attractive these dang books are!
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Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
It’s getting darker every day. The night is taking over. Read Where the Pavement Turns to Sand by lamplight. Enjoy. malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement
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Where the Pavement Turns to Sand — MALARKEY BOOKS
Preorder. Publishing October 2023. Signed copies will not be available on US orders, but we will have some signed copies available for Canadian orders. We’ll be sending books directly to the auth...
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Bud Smith @budsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Here’s a new short story of mine called “Leopold”, published by The Southwest Review. It’s a long one 10,000 words or so. t.co/xERnJTXcPP
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Leopold | Bud Smith
From the Magazine
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Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Saint Lizard is prowling the ancient catacombs. Feasting on giant rats. Shedding dead skin. Preparing for emergence. Fortify your villages.
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