Finally. It's the apocalypse. The old world is over. You wake up and now it's just you or just about you. Turns out, Stanley Brown has a problem. It's the end of the world and he doesn't have a date for Saturday night. A cataclysm of world events pushes Stanley out of his used book store into a lonely poisoned planet with only the buzz of shortwave radios and dogs for company. As the apocalypse approaches, Stanley seeks out the rest of the world to discover the year of the rabbit. Angry tirades, polemics and prescient conspiracy speculation fuel the novel. In the aftermath of the apocalypse, Stanley relocates to a century farm house. Enduring years of solitude and reflection, Stanley seeks human company. Shortwave radio, weather and dogs form part of Stanley's path in an amusing, hostile, literary, tirade of a demented hare raising tale. Using 2012 as a pretext for liberation, light hearted, heavy handed, here is my own never ending, take on tomorrow. ________________ Roy Berger lives in the legendary artist's colony of Ottawa, Ontario where the palm trees bloom in the winter and a cool breeze blows in the summer.
About the Author: Roy Berger was born in 1956 Galt, Ontario during the Hungarian revolution and has lived and worked in London, San Diego, Montreal, Windsor, Brantford, Mississauga the Trans-Canada highway, the 401, Cornwall, plus twenty minutes in Mexico and including two days in Moosejaw. He has worked as a waiter, dishwasher, janitor, bike mechanic, student, shipper, receiver, electro-mechanic, used and rare book store owner, typist, bowling ball machine mechanic, short-order cook, secretary, receptionist, salesman, linotype operator, assembly line worker and meat packer. He has traveled North America by bus, bicycle, car, truck, plane and foot. He has been sleeping in hostels, tents, hotels, apartments, houses, stairwells, out in the open and on someone's couch. Roy has published in Monitoring Times, Writers Block Magazine, hundreds of letters to the Editor across Canada since 1970 and published articles and stories in Canadapa, Cannabis Culture Magazine, Rude Magazine, Brick, Media-Five, London Free Press, Faux-Pas, Satellite, Cornwall Free News, The Montreal Review, Powderburnflash and Fogel's Underground Price & Grading Guide 2015-2016 and not withstanding; one minute in the movie documentary, Citizen Marc. Roy uses a Grundig Satellit 800 shortwave radio to travel the world without a passport and orchestrates important national affairs from his home in Ottawa.