SMFS Member Publishing News: In The End by Jacqueline Freimor

SMFS list member Jacqueline Freimor reported that her short story, In the End, was published in Rock and a Hard Place: Issue 11, Summer 2024. Published by Rock and a Hard Place Press, the read is available at Amazon.

 

Amazon Description:

You realize you've kidnapped a baby . . . And you're the good guy

You thought you knew the story of Ken McElroy and Skidmore, MO

The world or your family. Choose

You've spent your life not getting involved, but now you're faking it for your life and hers

Rock and a Hard Place Magazine returns with issue 11, featuring more of the most breathtaking, sweltering, realest fiction around, featuring some of the world’s finest writers at their grimiest and most unforgiving, including:

Joshua Murray, Colin Brightwell, Stefen Styrsky, Mary Thorson, Jay Bechtol, Jacqueline Freimor, Jason Allison, Christine Blackwicks, Jane Hertenstein, Anthony Neil Smith, John Weagly, and Casey Woolfolk

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that knows that when you go 11 out of 10, you’re bound to get 86’d.

SMFS Members Published in Rock and a Hard Place: Issue 10, Summer 2023

 

Several SMFS members are published in Rock and a Hard Place: Issue 10, Summer 2023. Published by Rock and a Hard Place Press, the read is available in print and digital formats at Amazon. The SMFS list members in this issue are:

 

Heidi Hunter with "Comic Con.”

 

Mike McHone with "Carousel Horses."

 

Amazon Description:

Don't Talk to the Cops.

A conscience can be a real bummer sometimes . . .

There's cash in comic books.

I mean, there's always Tomorrow. Right? 

Rock and a Hard Place returns again with Issue 10, featuring more of the hard luck stories you love, from writers at the top of their craft, including: Jerry Bloomfield, Barry Charman, Michael A. Gonzales, Gabriel Hart, Heidi Hunter, Wailana Kalama, Nolan Knight, Don LaPlant, Megan Lucas, Vincent Marshall, Mike McHone, and Mary Thorson.

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that knows when it seems like the whole world is against you, it's because it's probably true.

SMFS Members Published in Rock and a Hard Place: Issue 9, Winter 2023

Several SMFS members are published in the Rock and a Hard Place: Issue 9, Winter 2023. Published by Rock and a Hard Place Press, the read is available in print and digital formats at Amazon. The SMFS list members in this issue are:

 

C.W. Blackwell with “No Wrong Way to Grieve.”

 

David Hagerty with “The Politics of Snitching”

 

Mike McHone with “The Last Ruined Night.”

 

Michael Penncavage with “Sunshine State Private Investigations.”

 

Elena E Smith with “Darker.” 

 

Amazon Description:

Everybody knows how to spot an undercover cop. Right?

Doing life, six months at a time . . .

You think the gun makers will always win?

When you can’t trust your own grandmother, that’s noir.

 

Rock and a Hard Place is back with issue 9, featuring a dirty dozen tales of woe and misfortune from some of crime and dark fiction’s finest, including: Jennifer Bernardini, C.W. Blackwell, David Hagerty, William Kitcher, Nick Kolakowski, Mike McHone, Michael Penncavage, Emilee Prado, Richard Risemberg, Elena E. Smith, Archer Sullivan, and Mike Zimmerman

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that comes face-to-face with our gritty truths and hard luck realities, and doesn’t blink.