Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

Flashes from smaller years: He dives into rocks yielding a bloody nose exploding out onto the sand. He gulps out drunken ugly tears, glistening shards still in hand from the bottle shattered hours before. Red, again, everywhere. An unseen dog … Continue reading →

The anchovie pizza is salty; salty like the Baltic, like the Dead Sea, like a dead Sikh, too late fled from Sodom and/or Gomorrah, and caught then kept around until modern times to be a salt lick that I do … Continue reading →

If I were to meet any of Batman’s rogue’s gallery, I think I’d like it to be the Mad Hatter. He can tell people what to do, hypnotically, but he’s crazy, so I get the sense I could convince him … Continue reading →

I haven’t seen a raccoon in my neighborhood at all this year which is most certainly a good thing. I spied with terrified eyes sometime last autumn a couple of crazy critters in my back alley looking at me as … Continue reading →

All you fuckers… you dirty little fuckers. You fucking hippie fuckers: Fuck you. It wasn’t so long ago that I had somewhere to go someone to see. I had a reason to breathe I had someone to be. You’ve taken … Continue reading →

Please hire me. I could use a job. I would like very much to have some place to go, something to do with my days. I would really like to order something on my pizza other than garlic salt and … Continue reading →

Now that, sir, that is good form. You are doing excellent work there and I am very impressed by your courage. This is an hour in which you don’t know who might be watching you, hunting, ready to pounce. You … Continue reading →

Shit. Fuck. Goddamn it and god damn me for losing step on that which is truly important. I had forgotten – completely forgotten – to check up on the post-Valentine’s Day candy sales. What has happened to me? Who have … Continue reading →

They rolled her out in a gurney. She was barely lucid muttering names, but none of anyone around. Her hair was wild. Her teeth were out. It was a bad scene. She wasn’t happy being evacuated from her home, that … Continue reading →

When observed be careful of what they might see. Be thoughtful. Be wary. Consider the 360-audience all around you and keep concerned of which of your actions might be remembered and recorded and considered long after you’ve forgotten. Imagine that … Continue reading →