Dark All Day

Dark All Day, an original collection of short stories

published September 2013

forty one original stories, each one introduced with an original illustration by the author

each book comes with a photo print and a work of library card art (they make great bookmarks)

This book was a surprise. I entered the manuscript into a free (no submission fee) contest and forgot about it. But I’d been working on these stories for years, as part of a writing group I belonged to back then (each week you’d have to bring in something new to read out loud), and when my book won and was published, I could see how the threads connected, and created something thematically complete: edgy, dark and noir. This would be my second collection of short fiction.

some blurbs and review excerpts ...

Darryl Joel Berger’s short stories are dark, subversively funny, and surprising. Dark All Day thrusts us into uncomfortable worlds and scenarios, making us confront characters we’d probably never want to encounter in real life. Berger writes tales where a hand inevitably draws back the curtain to offer moments that are, in his words, "so blackly alive."
–– Gillian Sze, author of The Anatomy of Clay and Fish Bones, shortlisted for the 2009 QWF McAuslan First Book Prize

With his second collection of short fiction, DJ Berger offers 41 discrete tales of indiscreet characters. They will blow your mind one by one. If you crossed Stephen King with Raymond Carver you'd be getting close to what's going on here. The vision is bleak indeed, but also funny, intimate, and more than painfully real: a true dark triumph.
–– Carolyn Smart, author of Hooked and At the End of the Day

The stories and illustrations in DARK ALL DAY are disturbing and delightful in equal measure. Darryl Joel Berger is an exhilarating writer possessed of an apocalyptic (possibly apoplectic?) imagination fuelled by adrenalin, anxiety, and achingly acute observations of our unravelling world.
–– Diane Schomperlen, author of Forms of Devotion, winner of the Governor General's Award

From the first page, you know you’re in the wrong hands. So perfectly, exquisitely wrong.
–– Peter Darbyshire, author of Please and The Warhol Gang.

a nice gift for the book lover in your life

please tell when ordering if you’d like me to sign it

comes with a library art card (an original drawing on a vintage library card) and a print

shipped with care