Hard Times [P&S] PG_Gift_Guide plus stories from writers Mike

plus stories from writers Mike Garley

Starving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room… Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone… Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange scrapbooks packed with century-old newspaper obituaries of painters

A Kwanzaa Keepsake offers proverbs

There are very few things that are coincidences

Ashton Price and their best friend and enduring crush

Hard Times [P&S] PG_Gift_Guide plus stories from writers MikeAlso known as The Streetfighter, Hard Times stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, an aging bare knuckle boxer, trying to scratch out a living in the middle of the Depression. "Speed" (James Coburn) is the two bit promoter who books Chaney in the tank towns of the South and Midwest. He is briefly reinvigorated by an affair with the lovely Lucy (Jill Ireland, Mrs. Bronson in real life), but it's back to the seedy realm before too long. Hard Times represented