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Hard Luck: Stories
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.A man’s love triangle goes awry in CRANKED. Sex, drugs, and gambling seduce the characters in LOOKING FOR ACTION. In the title story, HARD LUCK, a hard-drinking sheriff enforces his own kind of law. A once imprisoned biker returns to his hometown to witness a backwoods, bare-knuckle brawl in THE FIGHT. In the dark, hillbilly gothic tale YOUR BIRD MY CAT, a young boy is fascinated by the chance to see the female anatomy up-close and personal for the first time. A man rides the rails looking to escape the perils of his hometown only to discover a town stranger and more unlivable than his own in BOXCAR TO PARADISE.The stories in this collection spring in and out of the gritty country noir genre and often land in steamy piles of contemporary and dirty realism. Some stories contain mature content.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 11, 2017
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Jeremy Perry
43 books6 followersJeremy Perry is an American writer from southern Indiana. He is the author of the Brothers of the Mountain series, the Sheriff Randall King series, Moonshiner's Justice, Moonshiner's Honor, and other works. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Cowboy Jamboree, New Pop Lit, Revolution John, Lamplit Underground, and other online publications. Stay up to date with Jeremy's writing and publishing news and other ramblings at https://www.jeremyjperry.com/.
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December 4, 2023
Western fans are rapidly becoming familiar with the name Jeremy Perry. Perry’s a writer from southern Indiana who writes several book series, including Brothers of the Mountain, Sheriff Randall King and The Moonshine Series.
He is also the author of several champion short story collections and lots of rural and small-town fiction, and working-class stories.
He is also becoming a major literary voice.
That’s because Perry gets it. His books strive to transcend genre and become honest stories of real men and women. There is an honesty to what he does and an integrity, as well. You’ll see this with the first few books you try and its unlikely you will forget them.
These are some of the thoughts I had reading Hard Luck: Stories, a collection of seventeen short stories set in small-town southern Indiana. Once read, they will stick with you.
These are stories of hard cases and wannabe badmen; of sad women and broken lives; of a country gone sour and a people who are rudderless. The are spare, hard and often mean.
They are fabulous.
While Perry has written some champion Westerns (which we’ll look at later), these stories are set in contemporary America. Perry examines the milieu with a clinicians eye and a philosopher’s heart. You will find here tales of love, of lust, of greed and of murder. This is James M. Cain territory, a parcel of land that Perry is now claiming for his own.
Jeremy Perry is a guy to watch.
He is also the author of several champion short story collections and lots of rural and small-town fiction, and working-class stories.
He is also becoming a major literary voice.
That’s because Perry gets it. His books strive to transcend genre and become honest stories of real men and women. There is an honesty to what he does and an integrity, as well. You’ll see this with the first few books you try and its unlikely you will forget them.
These are some of the thoughts I had reading Hard Luck: Stories, a collection of seventeen short stories set in small-town southern Indiana. Once read, they will stick with you.
These are stories of hard cases and wannabe badmen; of sad women and broken lives; of a country gone sour and a people who are rudderless. The are spare, hard and often mean.
They are fabulous.
While Perry has written some champion Westerns (which we’ll look at later), these stories are set in contemporary America. Perry examines the milieu with a clinicians eye and a philosopher’s heart. You will find here tales of love, of lust, of greed and of murder. This is James M. Cain territory, a parcel of land that Perry is now claiming for his own.
Jeremy Perry is a guy to watch.
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