"Any deal is better than no deal."
When the desperate reach out and shake
A Cold Hand
at the crossroads, their lives are no longer their own. Frank, like so many near him, has made a deal, but when he shook that
Cold Hand
, he never thought the day would come when his bill would come due. Now that it has, he has a choice to make in
Frank
.
"It's going to be fine, my love. It's all going to be fine. Don't worry, my love. It's going to be fine." Chris knew every facet of every deal he made, but when the biggest deal he ever made was coming to its conclusion, he had to find a way to renegotiate the terms in
Out of Road
Steven was positive who was responsible for his parents' deaths and he was determined to make him pay in
The Ride.
A night out turned strange, so strange it still haunts all who were there in
The Strange Disappearance of John Whitey Burnett
All he wanted was an escape, but how he went out about it will stay with him in
Repeater
Finding love in the strangest places can lead to some strange results in
Passing it Forward
Sometimes you owe even though you didn't agree to the price in A Question of Payment. An obsession grew from a single night out in
I Hate the Blues
What Allen finds as he looks into his partner's apparent mental break challenges his own stability in
Man of Flies
A bad day can seem to go on forever in
One of those Mornings
is the third collection of short stories from a
HARD PLACE.