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More Adventure Awaits — Stone’s Throw 2025

Welcome to yet another year of Stone’s Throw, the monthly companion to Rock and a Hard Place Magazine. In addition to our regular issues, we want to deliver shorter, sharper content on a regular basis straight to your face holes. Available online and featuring all the same grit and hard decisions as our usual fare, the team at Rock and a Hard Place advises readers to sit down and strap in for their trip here in the fast lane. Enjoy this Stone’s Throw.

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ST3.1 | "Tempting Destiny"

I didn’t leave Oklahoma to become a stripper. I could’ve done that back in Tahlequah. But if you want to control your own destiny, you don’t tuck your tail beneath what that choreographer called “a truly colossal ass” and get on a bus headed home. No, you suck up your pride, get hired on the day shift at Boobapalooza and start saving all those rolled up twenties.

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