Rolling The Bones: 12 Tales of Life, Death, Loss, & Redemption

by Rand Eastwood

Sometimes we win. Sometimes we lose. But every day, we roll the bones...

Rolling The Bones is a collection of twelve short stories and novellas written by author Rand Eastwood over the course of sixteen years. As the title suggests, the stories span multiple genres, including horror, drama, psychological suspense, ghost stories, coming-of-age, etc., as they deal with the many aspects of life & death, love & jealousy, loss & redemption, the natural & the supernatural, the mysterious & the mundane.

Beginning with his very first short story, A Sweet Ride, penned in 2000 (and still a reader favorite to this day), he soon thereafter wrote his first novella, Roughing It.

A few years later, his story The Traveler won first place in an international short fiction competition. The following year, his short story version of Forever Anna Day (since expanded to a novella) won honorable mention in the same competition. His story Cats (not the musical) then placed as a finalist in Writer's Digest's 79th Annual Writing Competition. Cats has also been his top-selling Kindle single on Amazon.

Rand has since written many others, several of which are published in this collection-including Hell or High Water, A Bearable Darkness of Being, The Calling, This Old House, Chambers, and his most recent novella, The Crossing.

490 pages, Paperback

Published June 16, 2016

About the author

Rand Eastwood is an author, artist, & craftsman residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Much of his fiction—including some award-winning stories—is included in his book Rolling The Bones, a collection of 12 subtly interconnected tales of dark fiction: 8 short stories, 3 novellas, and a short novel. His much-anticipated epic novel Primeval was recently released (Sept 2025) on Amazon. He also shares much of his short fiction on his author website. Visit his website and Lifeology Store, and follow his Amazon author page for notification of future book releases.

Reviews

[G.R. Lyons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely darker than I usually read, but I've enjoyed a few of Mr. Eastwood's stories before, so I had to have the paperback for my shelves. I love how some of the stories leave you with a sense of being not quite sure what's really going on -- is what's happening real, or just a character's imagination? -- and how the tones swing from dismal to uplifting and back again. The fact that all the tales are linked in one way or another is very cool, a character from one story showing up briefly in another. Some of the tales will make your stomach turn (and I've got a pretty strong constitution, so the fact that Mr. Eastwood was able to wring a physical response from me shows great writing talent in my book), while others are cheering and uplifting. Overall, a very entertaining read.