Bryant Street, a standard subdivision street, haunts us all. To escape Bryant Street often takes real courage. Meet Neil Prendell. He made a mistake. He lost his job but avoided telling his wife. Instead, he pretended to go to work while looking for another job. Pride? Fear? Stupidity? The reason no longer mattered. He paid the price. A price that only made sense in the twisted logic of Bryant Street.

They Were Divided by Cold Debt - Bryant Street

Dying on a first date sucks. Dying on a blind date sucks even worse. Marble Grant, superhero, finds herself suddenly dead in a disgustingly smelly back alley and not catching a white-beam ride to the other side of whatever. As a superhero, she knew about Ghost Agents. Never met one, but knew they existed. She never heard of superheroes making the transition to Ghost Agent before, either. The first story in a new and fun Ghost of a Chance series, where ghosts solve problems and help people. And look damn sexy in the process.

Blind Date: A Marble Grant Story - Marble Grant

Over sixty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twenty-eighth monthly volume the full novel An Easy Shot: A Golf Thriller, plus four short stories, and a new serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest. Short StoriesPink Shoes and Hot Chocolate: A Poker Boy StoryDinner on a Flying SaucerThey Were Divided by Cold Debt: A Bryant Street StoryA Matter for a Future Year: A Seeders Universe StoryFull NovelAn Easy ShotSerial FictionLaying the Music to Rest (Part 1)NonfictionIntroduction: A First Novel

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Strange stuff happens when a person dies. Glen Gunderson died of a heart attack in a bank and found himself in a bakery full of the most heavenly goodies. Then the doctors brought him back to life and things got really, really strange. But since he lived on Bryant Street, that should be expected.

The Man Who Tasted the Other Side - Bryant Street

In a casino in Oregon, Poker Boy beats a man fair-and-square at the poker table while a stranger watches, a stranger who knows too much about Poker Boy and his job. It turns out that much of Poker Boy's future rested on that one hand of cards. A classic Poker Boy story with true heart.

Living Time - Poker Boy, #17

Sandy Hunter kissed her husband goodbye one normal morning on her way to work. She never made it. Last seen walking alone into a Las Vegas hotel room, she never came out and no sign of her remained in that room. Her missing person's case went cold for fourteen years until retired Las Vegas detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson, members of the Cold Poker Gang, decided to investigate how a woman could vanish from a locked hotel room without a trace. Another twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery from the prolific mind of USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. If you love puzzle mystery novels, grab a Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.".Dean Wesley Smith draws a royal straight flush by making the hand he deals readers seem possible with this exhilarating political poker thriller."-Midwest Book Review on Dead Money

Freezeout: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery - Cold Poker Gang, #6

Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine never seem to fit exactly in one genre or another. Part of the fun of the magazine. Totally Pulphouse, then, that the ten stories in this volume don't fit in the standard "time travel" category. Some read like pure science fiction, some explore time travel and the repercussions of time travel, and some explore "end of the world" themes. Closed out by a powerful look at the repercussions of one single detail about time and space and the future, this powerful volume twists time in the most unpredictable ways. Includes:"Yesterday, When I Was Twenty" by Angela Penrose"One Sun, No Waiting" by Annie Reed"Ice in D Minor" by Anthea Sharp"Predict THIS" by Michael D. Britton"Time in Death" by C. A. Rowland"Time, Expressed as an Entrée" by Robert Jeschonek"The Chicken Time Machine" by Valerie Brook"With Light Years Between Us" by Robert J. McCarter"Time Map" by Robin Brande"Red Letter Day" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Destination Tomorrow or Yesterday: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine - Pulphouse Books

Poker Boy works as a superhero for Stan, the God of Poker. Poker Boy's unique talents-a keen sense for danger and a remarkable ability to read people-allow him to help those in need. He also asks a lot of stupid questions. But sometimes stupid questions lead to the only answer that will save the day. In this collection, Poker Boy tackles some tasks that would stump any ordinary superhero. He helps rescue another superhero from himself; helps a poker player learn that most important of skills-patience; discovers what's behind the bad poker playing of the Idiot Boy; travels to the Library of Atlantis to get the answer to a stupid question that demands an answer; and tempts fate by asking where the gods came from in the first place. No ordinary superhero, Poker Boy saves the world one humorous story at a time.

Playing a Hunch: A Poker Boy Collection

More than sixty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Heads Up, a new full-length novel in the Cold Poker Gang series, plus four new short stories; Black Coffee: A Marble Grant Story, The Portal of Wrong Love: A Poker Boy Story, Blind Poet, and Cat in Waiting: A Pakhet Jones Story. This 45th volume of Smith's Monthly also includes Stages of a Fiction Writer: A WMG Writer's Guide.

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A single Seeder scout ship trapped on the edge of a distant, uncharted galaxy. Chairman Peter German holds the fate of the three thousand people on the Pale Light. Main drives mysteriously not working, the ship hobbles along at sub-light speed with not enough supplies to reach the nearest Earth-like planetThe Chairman faces a hard, hard choice. He must find the solution. Galaxy spanning ships, billions of civilizations, the Seeders Universe stories and novels cover it all. But "A Matter for a Future Year" brings it all down to a single human choice. And the price paid by those who risk to explore outward.

A Matter for a Future Year - Seeders Universe

Marble Grant and the love of her life, Sims, chase down a stupid robber who tried to rob a casino for drug money. No reason for it at all. They leave the stupid robber face down, skin sizzling on a hot sidewalk and go and check on the cop he shot. Then things get very strange on the incredibly hot Las Vegas day. As only Marble and Sims can make them.

Death and Life in a Long Hot Day - Marble Grant

Over one hundred thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twenty-second monthly volume the full and complete novel, Dead Money: A Doc Hill Thriller. Dead Money is a poker thriller, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and other features. Short StoriesNonexistent No More: A Poker Boy StoryIn the Shade of the Slowboat ManStanding in Line at the IntersectionIt's a Story About a Guy Who.Full NovelDead Money: A Doc Hill ThrillerSerial NovelAn Easy Shot: A Golf Thriller (Part 5 of 8)NonfictionIntroduction: Bringing Back a Novel

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USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith decided to take his love for short fiction a step forward. In July of 2015, he wrote thirty-two short stories, one per day and one extra. Then, every day, he also wrote a short article about the writing of the story. Now the articles and stories combine into this major collection that also works as a master class on the art of storytelling. Follow a professional writer through a month of creation and enjoy some wonderful fiction at the same time.

Stories from July

Marble Grant and Sims work as two ghost agents in the Poker Boy universe. They crawl into people's heads and try to help them. Two stunning women, both over a hundred years old and both very dead. A wolf whistle from a jerk never surprised them when alive. But as ghosts, invisible ghosts, a wolf whistle shocked them.

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