Roger Nokes – författare

That stand-up sure knows how to bomb.

Delirium tremors and haunted houses might be a bad mix.

The high end gets down and dirty (and bloody).

The cat and the tattooist and the old lady and the missing man.

With this issue, Rock and a Hard Place takes lucky number seven and uses it as a knife straight to the ribs. Feel the luck bleed out in these stories of bad decisions and desperate people.

With stories by: Jason Allison; Rusty Barnes; Nils Gilbertson; Jim Guigli; Chris Harding Thornton; James Lilley; Bobby Mathews; James McCrone; Estelle Phillips; Mark Rapacz; J. Rohr; Ali Seay; Rob D. Smith; Daniel Vlasaty; Christopher Witty; Gregory Wolos; and Mike Zimmerman.

Rock and a Hard Place is the magazine that takes noir beyond crime to the world at large. On the run from your past? Need a dead-end job? Got a no-hope scam? Our authors are here for you.

Everybody knows how to spot an undercover cop. Right?

Doing life, six months at a time . . .

You think the gun makers will always win?

When you can''t trust your own grandmother, that''s noir.

Rock and a Hard Place is back with issue 9, featuring a dirty dozen tales of woe and misfortune from some of crime and dark fiction''s finest, including:

Jennifer Bernardini

C.W. Blackwell

David Hagerty

William Kitcher

Nick Kolakowski

Mike McHone

Michael Penncavage

Emilee Prado

Richard Risemberg

Elena E. Smith

Archer Sullivan

and Mike Zimmerman

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that comes face-to-face with our gritty truths and hard luck realities, and doesn''t blink.

Don''t Talk to the Cops.

A conscience can be a real bummer sometimes . . .

There''s cash in comic books.

I mean, there''s always Tomorrow. Right?

Rock and a Hard Place returns again with Issue 10, featuring more of the hard luck stories you love, from writers at the top of their craft, including: Jerry Bloomfield, Barry Charman, Michael A. Gonzales, Gabriel Hart, Heidi Hunter, Wailana Kalama, Nolan Knight, Don LaPlant, Megan Lucas, Vincent Marshall, Mike McHone, and Mary Thorson.

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that knows when it seems like the whole world is against you, it''s because it''s probably true.

There''s always money to be made telling rich people what they want to hear, and rich people want to hear they''re rich because they''re better. The One Percent is a dose of truth - the super-rich are both a symptom of a country gone off the rails, and, in many cases, the cause. Greedy and vampiric, they have polluted our waters, raped our land, and profited from untold amounts of spilled blood. And that''s before we examine their shitty behavior as individuals.

Inside:

-You can afford an African safari, but you can''t pay a craftswoman what her work is worth?

-Who cares if you made your money selling weapons of mass slaughter? Somebody does.

-If you''re not using that kidney, or even if you are...

-The good part about crypto is no rules. Funny, that''s the bad part too.

16 stories detailing the most vile of the most privileged wait inside, and, maybe, a little bit of payback, too.

With stories by:

C.W. Blackwell, Scott Von Doviak, Esther Mubawa, James D.F. Hannah, AD Schweiss, Thomas Trang, Meirav Devash, Eddie McNamarra, Andrew Rucker Jones, Sam Wiebe, Curtis Ippolito, Tim P. Walker, Jesse Lee, Sean Logan, Tom Andes, Steven-Elliot Altman, and Lin Morris.