Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 13: Winter 2025

Musical genius brings the pain.So does the stripper pole when it’s a grandmother-to-be . . .Can it end well when a church needs a hitman?“Oprah? You’re giving us Oprah?” Yeah. Just read it.In Issue 13, Rock and a Hard Place goes places you’d never expect. Unless you’ve been paying attention, because we always find the noir. Stories Mia Altamuro, Raymond J. Brash, Jamie Dibs, Gabriel Hart, Victor Kreuiter, Preston Lang, Eryk Pruitt, Keith Roysdon, Brian Silverman, Gabriela Stiteler, Jim Valenti, and Jane Young. Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that knows that 13 might be unlucky for some, but if it wasn’t for bad luck, we’d have no luck at all . . .