Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 8: Summer 2022

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Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 8: Summer 2022

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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 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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Roger Nokes is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Roger Nokes can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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