If The Twilight Zone exited in a subdivision.Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected. I created Bryant Street a long time ago when Stephen King said writers should write about what scares them. Subdivisions terrify me at a deep level, so I created Bryant Street. I lived this story far too many times in subdivisions. Luckily escaped with my life each time, but only barely.

Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Short Story - Bryant Street

Poker Boy saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Laverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker table. The stakes are higher than in the original Garden of Eden. To make matters worse, Poker Boy hates snakes.

Sighed the Snake - Poker Boy, #7

Cats roam everywhere on the planet. Everywhere. Their breed names often betray their place of origin-or their strange origin story in some now-lost land. This collection honors that feline diversity in odd ways as much as possible. And the strange lands that cats not only originate from, but find themselves in. These cats prowl in a witch's hut, an enchanted shop, post-apocalyptic cities such as Las Vegas and Seattle, as well as across an ancient land where they once ruled as gods. Come settle in for a journey through the kitty-cat cosmos. Includes:"Cat Web" by Meyari McFarland"Burning Bright" by Leigh Saunders"The Poop Thief" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Cat in a Different Place" by Dean Wesley Smith"A Silly Question" by E. Nesbit"The Witch's Cat" by Manly Wade Wellman"Life, with Cats" by Annie Reed"Night of the Hogtied Alien" by Stefon Mears"Fur Tsunami" by Kent Patterson

The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Strange Lands - The Year of the Cat, #4

In the near future, subdivisions sat dead. When Dennis Phipps goes to clean out his grandmother's old home in a dead subdivision, what he finds will change his life. A short story of a man reliving his past. Sometimes the old saying about the past should remain in the past rings frighteningly accurate. Especially for Dennis Phipps.

He Meant No Harm - Bryant Street

Poker Boy specializes in asking stupid questions. But sometimes even stupid questions need answers. To save the fabric of all things from unraveling, whatever that means, Poker Boy must go to the Library of Atlantis and do something that no one ever accomplished before.  Poker Boy saves all things. Again!Part of Magical Libraries, an Uncollected Anthology. "[The Poker Boy] series is unlike anything else out there. It's quirky and a lot of fun."-Amazing Stories

The Library of Atlantis - Uncollected Anthology, #5

May: 1902. Megan Taber bakes in the fancy new Idanha Hotel in downtown Boise. Her rolls and pastries and pies bring in patrons from all around the area. Widowed from her husband five years before, her entire life focuses on her baking. And she loves it. She considers baking her art. Joe Vaughn, a scholar, eats breakfast every day at the Idanha Hotel dining room because of Megan Taber's baking. A story of two people, tossed together by events and great food.

Idanha Hotel - Thunder Mountain

Mary Jo kills people for money. After a thousand years, she knows patience and skill and how to cover her tracks. Mary Jo loves her job. She makes a lot of money as a hired assassin. She also loves vodka and orange juice. Passionately, but not in a dangerous way. After a job well done, she rewards herself with the drink. Mary Jo might be the coldest killer in all of fiction. Or at least the only really cold killer who loves vodka and orange juice.

Make Myself Just One More - Mary Jo Assassin

Poker Boy and his team must stop a possible war between fairies and trolls. A war guaranteed to start at a poker table in the hidden Okey-Doke Casino. So everyone figured who would be better to stop it than Poker Boy. One problem: Poker Boy didn't even know fairies and trolls existed.

Shootout in the Okey Doke Casino - Poker Boy, #14

Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fifth volume the full and complete science fiction novel Sector Justice, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features. Short StoriesIf Sex is all a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the MessThat Lost RiddleStand for HomeLove with the Proper NapkinFull NovelSector JusticeSerial FictionThe Life and Times of Buffalo JimmyThe Adventures of HawkNonfictionIntroduction:  Now for Something a Little DifferentPoemsShe LaughedBorn to be Weightless

Smith's Monthly #5 - Smith's Monthly, #5

Poker Boy, for years and years, wondered how old his girlfriend and love of his life, Patty, could be. She never denied being older. Just never told him how much. Until the Goddess of Weather, Isis, turned out to be one of Patty's closest friends. Then all bets were off.

Age Might Be a Number - Poker Boy

Thirty years ago in Las Vegas, Becky Penn said goodnight to her mother to go out with friends and vanished without a trace. Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers, members of the Cold Poker Gang, take on Becky Penn's cold case. They love working with other retired detectives and playing a little poker once a week, all to solve cold cases. A puzzle mystery unraveled carefully by the retired detectives who make up the Cold Poker Gang.

A Bad Day for the Dream - Cold Poker Gang

Monumental SummitUSA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science fiction novel of the new times in the Old West. Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the world's great mathematicians, hire historical interior designer April Buckley and architect Ryan Knott to design and furnish a huge lodge to the year 1900 standards. Only problem: The lodge can't be built. It can't exist. Yet, somehow it does because they've built it before."Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story.

Monumental Summit - Thunder Mountain, #2

Las Vegas, wedding capital of the entire country. And at times, Marble and Sims end up watching very strange weddings. Like a wedding between two serial killers. Sort of. At least they killed old marriages. A strange wedding in a town full of really strange weddings.

Ashes to Weddings: A Marble Grant Story - Marble Grant

More than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Dry Creek Crossing, a new full-length novel in the Thunder Mountain series, plus five new short stories; A Lady in Heat: A Marble Grant Story, In the Dream of Many Bodies: A Bryant Street Story, The Last Short Putt of a Fearful Man, Tombstone Canyon (the short story): A Thunder Mountain Story, The Last Man: A Very Early Buckey the Space Pirate Story. This 43nd volume of Smith's Monthly also includes the final part of The Magic Bakery: A WMG Writer's Guide; part 1 of which appeared in Smith's Monthly #42.

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