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Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 8: Summer 2022 Paperback – August 24, 2022

by Rock and a Hard Place Press (Author), Jennifer Stark (Author), Aislinn Kelly-Lyth (Author),
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When your girlfriend is selling your used condoms, rethink the relationship.

High school is until death do us part.

Clowns! That's all we're gonna say.

Could anything be worse than looking like Ben Affleck? Well, yeah.

Issue Eight of Rock And A Hard Place chose its own theme. We've been seeing that happening. This time it's prison. Confinement. That trapped feeling. Knowing you have no choice. What could be more noir than that?

With stories by: Hector Acosta, Linda B. Adams, Jason Allison, John Bovio, Andy Boyle, B.W. Carter, Stephen J. Golds, Mark Jonathan Harris, Aislin Kelly-Lyth, Mike McHone, Eddie McNamara, Robert P. Ottone, Anthea Pretorius, Jennifer Stark, Scott Von Doviak, Marc Watkins, and Mike Zimmerman.

Rock And A Hard Place is the magazine that never looks away.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BBQB6RLN
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rock & a Hard Place Press (August 24, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8985290455
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  1. Robert P. Ottone

    Robert P. Ottone

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    Robert P. Ottone is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TRIANGLE and is also the best-selling author of CURSE OF THE COB MAN, THE SLEEPY HOLLOW GANG, THE VILE THING WE CREATED and NOCTURNAL CREATURES.

    His short fiction has been collected in WRAPPED IN PLASTIC AND OTHER SWEET NOTHINGS as well as HER INFERNAL NAME & OTHER NIGHTMARES.

    He holds two master’s degrees in Education, as well as an MFA in Children’s Literature.

    A bagel-loving fabulist of spooky absurdity, Ottone enjoys cigars, cocktails and time with his wife.

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    Mike McHone

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    Mike McHone is an award-winning mystery author and former journalist. His work has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Rock and a Hard Place, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Mystery Magazine (formerly Mystery Weekly), The AV Club, Playboy, the Anthony Award-Nominated anthology Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression edited by SA Cosby, as well as numerous other publications. He is the 2020 winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Hugh Holton Award for his soon-to-be-published novel "You Make Yourselves Another," and appeared on the prestigious Ellery Queen's Readers Poll that same year for his short story "A Drive-By on Chalmers Road?" Visit him online at www.mikemchone.com.

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    Rock and a Hard Place Press, LLC is an independent publisher of literary noir, crime, and dark fiction. The publisher focuses on narratives about marginalized, oppressed or "othered" characters -- individuals struggling with poverty, drug use, mental and physical health challenges, disability, sexual or gender identity, institutional racism, prejudice, bias -- and what they do next. The flagship publication from RHP Press is Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, a "Chronicle of Bad Decisions and Desperate People."

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    Jason spent twenty years with the New York City Police Department, fourteen as a homicide detective. His fiction has won the Al Blanchard award and been featured in the lit-noir journal Rock and a Hard Place and the 2022 & 2023 best crime fiction of New England collections. He has presented to attendees of Thrillerfest and members of the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in New England with his wife and their lazy Golden Retriever.

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Kevin Z. Garvey
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock and a Hard Place Rocks...Hard
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023
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When I saw that Eddie McNamara had a story in RHP8, I had to pick it up. Automatic. I expected another great story from Eddie, and true to form, he delivered. It's clear that McNamara's real life experiences inform his writing, so it was no surprise that his gritty tale, which is set in New York on 9/11, hit the mark.

What was a surprise was that all the stories in this edition were equally top notch, without a single clunker. RHP authors are not afraid to get down and dirty with their characters, and they explore the seedy underbelly of the human condition in a highly entertaining way. Shelter by Stephen J Golds, and Last Stop at the D&L by Linda B. Adams were two other tales that knocked me out.

I can't recommend this one enough. Jump on it.
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Jason
5.0 out of 5 stars Stories That Bruise
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2022
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Another killer volume of gritty shorts. RHP has established itself as the premier publication for no-rules fiction. Among my favorites:

Keeping Time, by Mike McHone
Senior Kip Day, by Scott Von Doviak
Down to Clown, by Robert Ottone
Ben Affleck, by Eddie McNamara

Keep ‘em coming.
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Zelda
5.0 out of 5 stars Good buy!
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022
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Last Stop at the DNL is my favorite 👍
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jay bechtol
5.0 out of 5 stars Consistdntly good
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2022
The gang over at RHP is doing something right. Story after story and issues after issue, these anthologies continue to offer such solid writing, engaging storytelling, and gritty insight into the world of the down trodden, the losers, and the dark underbelly of society.

Issue 8 benefits from writers I enjoy reading like Stephen J Golds, Hector Acosta, and John Bovio. But I also enjoyed finding new (to me) writers like Linda B. Adams. Her story "Last Stop at the D&L" about a man in Nowheresvile, Texas, his wife and strange traveler at a broken down gas station is exceptional. Also of note (and new to me) is Anthea Pretorius and her story "Hair." A piece about family and things stolen in darkness...

If you like the dark stuff, pick up one of these issues. Heck. Go get all of them.
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