Nikki Dolson

In Love and Other Criminal Behavior, crime fiction powerhouse Nikki Dolson drops thirteen stories exploring the many different ways to love-and just as many ways to end up dead.

Love and Other Criminal Behavior

Laura Park, the narrator of Dolson's dark first novel, meets her future boss, Simon Pritchard of Pritchard Investigations, over a dead body one night on a road outside Las Vegas, Nev. The body belongs to thug Jimmy MacAvoy. Laura has just stabbed Jimmy in the chest multiple times because he was responsible for the death of her best friend, Fiona, who overdosed on drugs. Laura suggests Simon call the cops, but instead he takes her under his wing and makes her part of his team of assassins-and his girlfriend. Brutal Frank Joyce trains Laura to become a professional killer. Even after Simon dumps her for the more upscale Marjorie Adams, Laura continues as both his employee and occasional lover. Simon, Frank, and her assignments test Laura to the utmost. Anyone can become a target, loyalties can shift in a blink, and when everyone is homicidal, people are going to die, possibly even Laura. Dolson's wicked if somewhat contrived thriller lives up to its ominous title.

All Things Violent

Jonathan Elliott

Jay Butkowski

The poor pay more, even when nature calls. A vintage car is a cruel mistress. Hookers don't get vacations - not the kind you come back from. What won't a mother do when her son needs a heart? Call this issue a hat trick of desperation. Rock and a Hard Place 3 continues the chronicles of people who might make one good decision if they could catch a single break. Fiction, essays, and art by: C.W. Blackwell, LR Casazza, Jen Conley, Tammy Euliano, Alison Garsha, Stephen J. Golds, Jeremiah Kniola, Mark Krajnak, Diane Krauthamer, Claude Lalumiere, Gabrielle Nelson, Andrew Novak, Alexandros Plasatis, David Rachels, Richard Risemberg, Todd Robinson, Donald D. Shore, Rob Tucher, Robb T. White, In Rock and a Hard Place the struggle never ends, and our attention never flags

Spring/Summer

Rock and a Hard Place, Issue 3

Mike Miner

Adam Howe

Eryk Pruitt

Thomas Pluck

J. David Jaggers

Don LaPlant

Brandon Patterson

It's another issue of the multi award-wining crime fiction mag, THUGLIT! Filled with EIGHT brand new stories of crime and criminals that will bring you straight to the edge. Dig the nasty, kittens. It ain't gonna be pretty.IT'S GONNA BE THUGLIT!!! In This Issue of Thuglit:ANIMAL CONTROL by Don LaPlantTHE LAST TIME WE SAW BEARS IN LAKE CASTOR by Eryk PruittTHE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT by J. David JaggersMOMMA'S BOY by Mike MinerTHE LAST DETAIL by Thomas PluckOUR MAN JULIAN by Nikki DolsonBRUIN by Brandon PattersonCLEAN-UP ON AISLE 3 by Adam Howe

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