A Lit-Noir Publisher Focusing on Stories of the Desperate...and What They Do Next.

Web Exclusives

Web Exclusives

“Bedtime,” Lenny Specht

“Bedtime,” Lenny Specht

Stories, Art, Essays, Weirdness, and More—and You’ll Only Find It Here.

NEGATIVE TILT - Bobby Mathews
Derringer-nominated short fiction that originally appeared in Issue 7 of Rock and a Hard Place Magazine.

MAY THEIR MEMORY BE A BLESSING — A Look at A.J. Sidransky’s The Interpreter on Holocaust Remembrance Day
A Q&A with author A.J. Sidransky about writing history, mystery, intersections with the present day, and why we must never forget.

SUMMER AT METTIES - Marian Allen
A woman is shunned by her community for being decent to the wrong person.

WHY WE ARE NOT PUBLISHING COP STORIES - Roger Nokes
An essay explaining a Rock and a Hard Place editorial policy

FEELIN’ LIKE HELL - Nils Gilbertson
You think you’re doing a nice thing, being social with someone, and then - boom! - you get hoodwinked, and bad.

EL LADRON - A.J. Sidransky
In El Ladron, two life-long friends are confronted with a choice when the home of one is broken into.

SHANGRI-LA - Cindy Rosmus
Read about Val and her dysfunctional boyfriend, Lars.

DAY IN, DAY OUT - Jeffrey C. Eaton
This is our first story, a taste of what you might find in
Issue One.

CHIMERA FROM A HARD PLACE: A FRANKEN-STORY
An insane exquisite corpse-style story from multiple authors.

A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD RISEMBERG
Get a special sneak peak at the type of content we put on our Patreon page.