Hard Luck is an evocative collection of seventeen stories that glimpses into the lives of the often broken and downtrodden people in small-town southern Indiana. Some residents escape while others are consumed by their drug-fueled, crime-ridden environments. Some of the stories featured: Cranked - Joe Spray is a small-time drug dealer who's caught in the middle of a fiery love triangle. When he is forced to choose between his two love interests, he quickly finds himself conspiring to commit murder on the other woman. (Crime, Mature Content) Looking for Action - A night out on the town filled with sex, drugs, and gambling seduce the characters in this short story. (Crime, Mature Content) Hard Luck - Randall King is a hard-drinking sheriff who enforces his own kind of law while trying to avenge his sister's murder. (Country Noir, Crime) The Fight - A once, imprisoned biker returns to his hometown to witness a backwoods, bare-knuckle brawl. The Way of the Culture - Jesco Morgan is a bare-knuckle fighter who's trying to survive in the poverty-stricken town of Uproar. The southern Indiana town, filled with drug dealers, run-down neighborhoods, and people living off food stamps and disability checks, is the place that Jesco has always called home. When his ailing mother wants him to go out and buy her "medicine" with his fight winnings, the reluctant Jesco agrees, but the good son's nurturing ways are met with dire consequences. (Grit Lit, Dirty Realism) Your Bird, My Cat - Bobby Earl Clark is a young country boy who spends his days cussing, feeding dead puppies to the hogs, and burning the heads off green army men. When a neighbor girl laughs him out of the country-side and accuses him of being nothing more than a little boy after tricking him into showing his manhood, it's Bobby Earl who has the last laugh. (Hillbilly Gothic) Blaze of Glory - Bobby Earl Clark is a local criminal looking to pull off one last job and go down in history just like a western outlaw from yesteryear. Although his partner is reluctant and thinks the job is a bad idea, Bobby Earl is steadfast to go down in a blaze of glory no matter the cost. (Grit Lit, Crime) Boxcar to Paradise - To see the mountains, valleys, and travel across America is the adventurous life Joel Hester seeks. He wants nothing more than to put his former life of hopeless dreams and unfulfilled desires behind him. Riding the rails for the first time, he meets a couple of characters that inspire him to follow through with his new life of drifting and to meet new people and visit other towns and cities. However, when Joel discovers the town of Paradise, he finds that not everyone is so warm and welcoming of who he is, and leaving this strange town may not be an option. (Mystery, Weird Fiction) Some of the stories in this collection are linked while other stories stand on their own.