Stories from a HARD PLACE
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Creator: R A Jacobson
Crime and Mystery Single-voiced Serial Audio Book
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In the dark where two dusty back roads cross a black car sits waiting. The man inside will make a deal he has many times before and will again. He is known in these parts as The Judge. Folk go to him when they have a powerful need, a want that can’t be satisfied any other way. Some are too young to know better, others are desperate and still others just pain stupid. His price is high and many never believe they will have to pay it but the bill comes due eventually. There is no escape. No lead pill that can free you. Once struck the deal is all that remains.
Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Serial
Voices: Single
Genres: Crime and Mystery
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Episodes:
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:00:00 -0400
“You can’t beat me. You can’t win. You don’t have what it takes,” The Judge said as he looked down at Jacob.
Chapters 72, 73, 74 and 75 Season 3
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:00:00 -0400
An hour past the Ol’ Scratch tavern on 11, Jacob, Brian and Clyde turned off the main road onto a two-wheel trail that threaded itself through the trees opening onto a farmyard.
Chapters 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71 Season 3
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:00:00 -0400
It was quiet but filled with hope.
Chapters 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 65 Season 3
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:00:00 -0400
By 6 p.m. John had worked himself into a frantic state. He was shaking and sweating.
Chapters 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59 Season 3
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400
Mary Lou watched as she shook The Judge’s hand.
Chapter 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54 Season 3
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400
Wincing again, he thought of the song that had forced its way out of him yesterday. He tried to play it, but it would not come.
Chapter 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49 Season 3
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:00:00 -0400
He kicked the heap of useless timber, then picked it up and flung it across the room. It slammed into the framed photo of his icon, Robert Johnson. It crashed to the floor—bits of glass and wood scattering everywhere.
Chapters 41, 42, and 43 Season 3
Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:00:00 -0400
Once, the lonely house had been painted light green and white, but now much of the paint was peeled, flaked off, revealing weathered grey boards. Some windows still held glass, reflecting a washed-out and colourless sky.
Chapter 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40 Season 3
Tue, 17 May 2022 12:00:00 -0400
He walked alone down a dirt road on a quiet, moonless night. He came to a sign he could not read. It pointed back to the way he had come.
Chapter 33, 34 and 35 Season 3
Thu, 05 May 2022 12:00:00 -0400
He sighed. It had been a long day, and there was always more to do. His mind wasn’t on the farm, though. The past few days, he had thought about Billy a lot. It wasn’t fair.
Chapter 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 Season 3
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:00:00 -0400
He held it up in both hands and looked it over. Was it smoking? It seemed blackened, as if it had recently been in a fire. There was a faint smell of burnt wood in the apartment, though he couldn’t be sure.
Chapter 22 , 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 Season 3
Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:00:00 -0400
He had had a dream and had let it go. And the dog knew it.
Chapter 19, 20 and 21 Season 3
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:00:00 -0400
Matt walked across the crisp marble, each footfall echoing loudly around him. Behind a long counter that looked as if it had been carved from a single block of white stone, a young, clean-shaven man stood expectantly.
Chapter 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Season 3
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0500
Though he ignored it, the guilt was always there.
Chapter 10, 11,12, and 13 Season 3
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:00:00 -0500
“Next time,” he would tell himself.
Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 Season 3
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:00:00 -0500
Three days later, Matt still had not heard from Allen.
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:00:00 -0500
“If you don’t have any answers and the questions keep adding up, you have to take a moment and decide if you are facing the right direction,”
HARD PLACE prologue, Chapters 1 and 2 Season 3
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:00:00 -0500
Prologue
Billy hated contests, especially in-store raffles or scratch and win tickets.
When your day starts with a close friend stopping by and trying to kill you, you know the rest of your week could only get better. Unfortunately, for Jacob, that’s not the case.
Jacob’s hatred had turned into a hard thing, a rock in his heart he couldn’t put down. It weighed on him, every minute of every day, and Clyde was there to remind him of the mistake he made, his deal. But what if the deal he made wasn’t what he thought it was? What if everything he knew to be true was all a lie? Around him, Death stalks and friends will die. His world soon would be coming apart, unravelling.
Matt had only just begun his career as a detective, but already he had a trench coat and an impossible case. Along the path, he would fall in love and realize that the world was far different than he knew.
When Mr. White and The Judge meet at the crossroads, Jacob and Matt could lose everything.
The strange disappearance of John Whitey Burnett Pt2 EP 41 Season 2
Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:00:00 -0500
Many people talk about the night Bob Dylan played at Ol’ Tom's Backroom but no one ever mentions the night John 'Whitey' Burnett woke the devil and made him cry.
The strange disappearance of John Whitey Burnett Pt 1 Ep 40 Season 2
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:00:00 -0500
Many people talk about the night Bob Dylan played at Ol’ Tom's Backroom but no one ever mentions the night John 'Whitey' Burnett woke the devil and made him cry.
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:00:00 -0500
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Thu, 04 Nov 2021 13:00:00 -0400
Phil, a tired detective that has always relied on his partner to solve the cases while he did the busy work. Now he wants to step up and solve one for himself.
The job that comes in is a simple one. Just find a man, but then when he finds the man in a back alley. Everything he thinks he knows about his world takes a turn to the bizarre.
His partner, Allen, has to unravel the tangled knot that took Phil’s mind and left him locked in a cell talking about a man of flies.
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:00:00 -0400
Yer listenin’ to SHP666 back road radio, the voice of Hard Place
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Adding it up Pt 1 EP 35 Season 2
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:00:00 -0400
My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad.
His love of numbers led him to ask for something that turned out to be something else entirely in Adding it up.
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:00:00 -0400
All your life you have wanted something but maybe you didn’t know what that was in The Touch.
The Refusal Pt 1 EP 27 Season 2
Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:20:00 -0400
She wanted the power, she just didn’t want to be used by it in The Refusal.
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0400
The desperate do desperate things that they soon come to regret in Haymaker.
SHP 666Back road radio EP 23 Season 2
Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0400
Radio SHP 666
the voice of Hard Place
featuring Noah Zacharin
Passing it Forward Ep 21 Season 2
Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0400
Finding love in the strangest places can lead to some strange results in Passing it Forward.
SHP 666 Backroad Radio Ep 20 Season 2
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0400
SHP 666 Backroad Radio
the voice of Hard Place
featuring Peter Boyd
Tired of Living Ep 19 Season 1
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:00:00 -0400
What do you do when life has outlived the reason to be alive in Tired of Living.
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:00:00 -0400
A life of stacked years never knowing that it was all in service to a memory in Service Up.
Thu, 27 May 2021 13:32:00 -0400
The Ride will make you second guess what you thought you were sure of.
Thu, 20 May 2021 13:32:00 -0400
The Ride will make you second guess what you thought you were sure of.
The Dog walker Pt 3 Episode 11 Season 1
Thu, 13 May 2021 13:28:00 -0400
A tale of a man who fell in love with a woman who forgot him in The Dog Walker.
The Dog Walker Part 2 Episode 10 Season 1
Thu, 06 May 2021 13:43:00 -0400
A tale of a man who fell in love with a woman who forgot him in The Dog Walker.
The Dog Walker Part 1 Episode #9 Season 1
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:41:00 -0400
A tale of a man who fell in love with a woman who forgot him in The Dog Walker.
The Grounded Pt 2 Ep#8 Season 1
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:00:00 -0400
sometimes the dream of escape should remain a dream.
The Grounded Pt 1 EP# 7 Season 1
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:00:00 -0400
Sometimes the dream of escape should remain a dream.
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:12:16 -0400
Never judge a book by its cover, even one with fangs, as a surprise awaits in Doc’s Choice.
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:13:18 -0400
A story of realization, loss, and transformation takes flight in Redwing.
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:23:23 -0400
Fame has a dark side, Becoming Famous echoes the age old warning, ‘Be Careful what you wish for’.
TOGETHER FOREVER Pt 2 Ep 3 Season 1
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:22:07 -0400
When Tommy found love it was as unexpected as it ended. Now he has made a decision that will change everything, and maybe not for the good.
He believes the lie and makes a decision that he will regret.
TOGETHER FOREVER Pt1 Ep2 Season 1
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:04:09 -0500
Tommy watches his dream love become a nightmare in Together Forever.
Johnny F***king Carson Ep 1 Season 1
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:57:19 -0500
The head that was found on the blacktop tells a tale in Johnny Fucking Carson.
Written and read by R A Jacobson
music by Noah Zacharin