Rock and a Hard Place [v1 #5, Winter/Spring 2021] eic. Roger Nokes, mgn ed. Jay Butkowski (Rock and a Hard Place Press, $12.95, 190pp, digest, $2.99 ebook, cover by Ron Santee)
Foreward: Looking Straight at Bleakness • Roger Nokes • ed
1 • A Son Needs His Mother • Deb Merino • ss
15 • Downtown Rises • J. Rohr • pt
17 • Falling and Catching • Claude LaLumière • ss
23 • A Bad-Hearted Man • Travis Wade Beary • ss
37 • Sea, Grass, Sky • Jerry Bloomfield • pt
39 • From the Dark Ages • C.A. Cole • ss
51 • Quarrels from All Sides • John Joseph Ryan • ss
63 • From the Rock, Looking Toward the Hard Place or Hudson River Sunset • B.J. Rozan • pt
65 • Beautiful Jena • R.D. • ss
75 • The Waiting Room • Richard Risemberg • ss
81 • Saddest Recipe Cookbook • S.J. Rozan, Lindsey Heatherly, J.B. Stevens, Paul J. Garth • ms
89 • Bring Me a Pint of Cherry Garcia • Thomas Pluck • ff
93 • The Value of a Dollar • Adrian Ludens • ss
103 • Nursery • Jeff Maschi • ff
105 • Nursery • Jeff Maschi • pt
107 • Drying Out at the Shelter • Braxton Younts • mm
121 • Gone • Don Stoll • ss
129 • A Lone Light • J. Rohr • pt
131 • The Bust Out at Tomato Farm No. 7-1 • Tim P. Walker • ss
141 • The Ocean at Their Shoulders • James D.F. Hannah • ss
153 • How to Love • Michael J. Moore • ss
157 • Requiescat En Pace • Jerry Bloomfield • pt
159 • Mrs. Gotobed • Bill Davidson • ss
170 • Contributors’ Biographies • bi
ff=flash fiction
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