As Ron pointed out the archives for Hardluck will be
maintained until October, and anyone looking through it will
find originally published noir and hardboiled short fiction
from a pretty remarkable group of writers, including Ed
Gorman (Ed's "Beauty" is one of my favorite modern stories,
period), Jeremiah Healy, Ken Bruen, Bill Crider, Bentley
Little, James Reasoner, Adrian McKinty, Steve Hockensmith,
Norman Partridge, Jon Breen, Manuel Ramos and Robert Walker,
as well as some extraordinarily talented newer writers that
people here may not have heard of, but include Iain Rowan
(whose story "One Step Closer" is brilliant), Harry Shannon,
Garnett Elliott, Craig McDonald, Mike MacLean, T. L. Wolf,
William Boyle and Pearce Hansen. And as I probably say more
times than Al likes to hear, Hardluck also has in its
archives Allan Guthrie's first published work. The thing with
Hardluck was there was never any compromise, we only picked
stories if we felt strongly about them--and didn't care how
many stories we had for an issue--as long as we didn't pick
too many and overtax our illustrator), so there's no filler
in the archives. If you like dark short crime fiction that
tends towards more strongly plotted than what's being
typically published, you should check out the current issue
and the archives while they're still around.
--Dave
http://www.hardluckstories.com/Archives.htm
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