Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Hashtag 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 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Sorry 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? 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I’ve been marinating in culture for the past ten years. You’re welcome. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I am the Jack Reacher teacher of grading essays. 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I’m the doom guy of eating chicken bacon ranch wraps 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Sorry babe, but I’ve taken a sacred vow to abstain from dating social workers. 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 20/05/2025These 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. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I 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. 020
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Sometimes you have to create a militant anarchism group in order to destabilize the populace of a small town. 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/04/2025My 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. 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/04/2025A 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. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Jim Harrison Murakami Tadao Tsuge Donald Ray Pollock Kafka 000
Reposted by Jon BergerSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025So 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...open.substack.com"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..." 53812
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 21/02/2025If 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. 030
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Teaching note: do not attempt to teach 16 year olds about ego death. 020
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Hashtag 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. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I 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. 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I’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. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Over 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. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The 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 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It’s a snow day. I have two copies of Saint Lizard and one copy of Goon Dog available for you. You’re welcome. 020
Reposted by Jon Bergerandrew rivas @andrew-rivas.com · 16/01/2025SUICIDE: 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. 262
Reposted by Jon Bergerandrew 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...amazon.comSuicide: An Anthology 074
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I’m very proud to be included in this anthology. Great to see people reading and connecting with it. 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Oh, 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. 000
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Wrote 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. 000
Reposted by Jon Bergerkyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024hey @bergerbomb44.bsky.social 071
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Kyle is a devout follower in the teachings of Saint Lizard. 131
Reposted by Jon Bergerkyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024fully lizard pilled, totally berger bombed. worth the wait, @bergerbomb44.bsky.social 091
Reposted by Jon BergerSouthwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 30/01/2024BAD 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-...southwestreview.comWe See What We Want to See | Brian Allen Carr’s Bad FoundationsBy Robert Warf 021
Reposted by Jon BergerSouthwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 16/01/2024First 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...southwestreview.comThe Peacemaker | Notes on the Work of Cormac McCarthyBy Luis Jorge Boone 022
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 29/11/2023You can pre order saint lizard here. I’ll know if you don’t. gobpilepress.bigcartel.comgobpilepress.bigcartel.comGob Pile PressGob 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... 010
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 07/11/2023I 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... 020
Reposted by Jon BergerSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 02/11/2023Hey, bud. Buy my book, buddy. malarkeybooks.com/store/pavement 062
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Goon Dog is still lurking in the wasteland of grinning shadows and McDonald’s play area ball pits. gobpilepress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-... 000
Reposted by Jon BergerFarewell Transmission Lit @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social · 10/10/2023Today we have Pothole Eyes by @bergerbomb44.bsky.social farewelltransmission.net/2023/10/poth... 042
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 10/10/2023New poem up today @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social about delivering tools and monsters from the abyss. From forthcoming collection Saint Lizard. Thank you @tenhoeve.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Jon Bergermax hipp @maxissippi.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Look how affordable and attractive these dang books are! 033
Reposted by Jon BergerSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 27/09/2023It’s getting darker every day. The night is taking over. Read Where the Pavement Turns to Sand by lamplight. Enjoy. malarkeybooks.com/store/pavementmalarkeybooks.comWhere the Pavement Turns to Sand — MALARKEY BOOKSPreorder. 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... 094
Reposted by Jon BergerBud Smith @budsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2023Here’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/xERnJTXcPPt.coLeopold | Bud SmithFrom the Magazine 0104
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social · 14/09/2023Saint Lizard is prowling the ancient catacombs. Feasting on giant rats. Shedding dead skin. Preparing for emergence. Fortify your villages. 050