Hard Luck is an evocative collection of seventeen stories that glimpse 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 rural noir and often land in steamy piles of dirty realism. Jeremy Perry is an American author from southern Indiana. In 2011, he began writing the short story western series BROTHERS OF THE MOUNTAIN. In 2013, he released his first short story collection entitled UNDER THE WILLOW TREE and Other Stories. His books MOONSHINER'S JUSTICE and the BROTHERS OF THE MOUNTAIN collection Heart of the Frontier were released in 2016. By day, Jeremy sports a pair of work boots and disguises himself as a home maintenance technician.
