The Georgie Gust Exhibit
What if you had such severe schizophrenia that your life was just one hallucination after another? And what if people kept trying to drag you back out of those hallucinations, to prove that you weren’t living in reality, and that reality was nothing more than a psych hospital? Would you go? Would you make that leap back into reality, leave such a vivid life, for ceramic walls and metal gurneys?
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Tuesday May 20, 2025
Tuesday May 20, 2025
A surreal psychological audiobook in 24 haunting chapters. Follow Georgie Gust through madness, memory, and medical betrayal. Written by Jonathan Harnisch. Fiction. Memoir. Nightmare. Fire.
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
1000 Blinks (from Alibi³): Written and performed by Jonathan Harnisch
A thousand flashes of raw truth. A thousand moments too real to forget.
From the acclaimed author of The Lucid Room comes 1000 Blinks—a haunting, hypnotic journey through the mind of a man shattered by trauma and pieced back together through love, memory, and madness. In this abbreviated audio experience, Jonathan Harnisch doesn’t just tell you his story—he bleeds it out in poetic shards, whispered confessions, and cinematic riffs that break the rules and rewrite reality.
Part memoir, part fever dream, part defiant scream into the void—1000 Blinks is unfiltered, unflinching, unforgettable.
Listen with your heart. Remember with your soul.
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Enter the Lucid Room — not a location, but a fracture in time. In this 30-minute fever elegy from Pervo – Third Alibi, Jonathan Harnisch becomes Georgie Gust: a man unraveling in static, haunted by Claudia — the ghost, the drug, the wound that never closes. Each word trembles with memory, withdrawal, and the ache of love that may never have been real but still ruins everything. This isn’t a teaser — it’s a dirge whispered through broken mirrors and flickering motel lights. A cat waits. A shadow breathes. And Georgie confesses not to be heard, but to exist. This isn’t a story. It’s what survives after the breakdown.
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
Sunday Aug 29, 2021
"What...is it like to suffer from...schizophrenia combined with...Tourette's syndrome? ...[Harnisch's] answers to such questions and the ways in which they are portrayed prove complex. Mixing diary entries...with a screenplay...messages are often jumbled though not without merit, [as] when the narrator announces that "I had a paranoid spell last night. [My wife] was texting me, and I was convinced that it was my stepmother impersonating my wife." Wildly varied in style and content, making for an informative and strange trip through the experience of mental disorders."- Kirkus Reviews
Saturday Aug 14, 2021
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
hi everyone! hope u enjoy this. it's inspired by the book avail on amazon etc. stay happy healthy & safe this year. your pal, Jonathan
Saturday Oct 08, 2016
Saturday Oct 08, 2016
The Oxygen Tank by author, Jonathan Harnisch is a non-linear story of schizophrenia and obsession. Rather than having a chronological plot, it exists in a series of maddening hallucinogenic episodes that combine Benjamin J. Schreiber's deepest insecurities and darkest fantasies. In every one of these manic flashes, the same characters appear: Georgie, the alter-ego living in Ben's body, and Claudia, the object of his twisted desires and destructive obsession. These "schizophrenic blue-movie skits and sleazy hardcore porn-flicks," as Ben describes them to his psychiatrist, open a disturbing window into the psychopathy that controls his every day.
Friday Sep 30, 2016
Friday Sep 30, 2016
A fictional novel that explores the inner workings of the schizoaffective mind. This book is not just to provide a picture of how mental illness disrupts the reality of the sufferer, but more importantly to share how creative pursuits like writing can have tremendous therapeutic benefits. Its target audience is adult readers who enjoy the transgressive style that best depicts the intricacies of a mentally ill mind.
Wednesday Sep 14, 2016
Wednesday Sep 14, 2016
Ben Schreiber, a mentally ill sexual abuse victim, recalls his exploits in psychiatric sessions. Nominee for Crimson Quill, INDIEFAB, National Indie Excellence Awards, 24th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, and BookLife Prize for Fiction.
Wednesday Sep 14, 2016
Wednesday Sep 14, 2016
Independently wealthy schizophrenic offers to pay his neighbor to be his sexual torturer. Nominated for the Crimson Quill, finalist INDIEFAB, finalist National Indie Excellence Awards 2016, shortlisted 24th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, BookLife Prize for Fiction.