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.