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.
Episodes
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 11, 2021
7 min
Yer listenin’ to SHP666 back road radio, the voice of Hard Place
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Nov 4, 2021
Nov 4, 2021
31 min
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.
Oct 28, 2021
Oct 28, 2021
8 min
Yer listenin’ to SHP666 back road radio, the voice of Hard Place
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Oct 14, 2021
Oct 14, 2021
22 min
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.
Oct 7, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
1hr 40 min
All your life you have wanted something but maybe you didn’t know what that was in The Touch.
Sep 9, 2021
Aug 19, 2021
Aug 19, 2021
1hr 7 min
She wanted the power, she just didn’t want to be used by it in The Refusal.
Aug 12, 2021
Jul 29, 2021
Jul 29, 2021
35 min
The desperate do desperate things that they soon come to regret in Haymaker.