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    The Old Girlfriend of Doom: A Poker Boy story
    The Old Girlfriend of Doom: A Poker Boy story
    The Old Girlfriend of Doom: A Poker Boy story
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    The Old Girlfriend of Doom: A Poker Boy story

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    Even superheroes can’t always save the girl. As one of the greatest superheroes in all of the Gambling Universe, Poker Boy does everything he can to help, but when the damsel in distress doesn’t want to be rescued from her own deadly breasts, what’s a superhero to do?

    “The Old Girlfriend of Doom” was first published in the anthology Crime Spells in February 2009 edited by Loren L. Coleman and Martin H. Greenberg from Daw Books.

    Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred published short stories. His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.

    Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

    Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. Soon he will be again editing for Fiction River.

    Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name and having great fun as an indie writer as well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJul 4, 2010
    ISBN9781452399188
    The Old Girlfriend of Doom: A Poker Boy story
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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      The Old Girlfriend of Doom - Dean Wesley Smith

      The Old Girlfriend of Doom

      A Poker Boy Story

      Dean Wesley Smith

      The Old Girlfriend of Doom

      Copyright © 2012 by Dean Wesley Smith

      Published by WMG Publishing

      Cover Design copyright © 2012 WMG Publishing

      Cover art copyright © Drx/Dreamstime

      The Old Girlfriend of Doom was first published in the anthology Crime Spells in February 2009 edited by Loren L. Coleman and Martin H. Greenberg from Daw Books.

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      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

      This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      The Old Girlfriend of Doom

      A Poker Boy Story

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      Sometimes even superheroes can’t save the day, or the girl, or the dog, and that fact is even sadder when the girl is one of the superhero’s old girlfriends.

      Honest, Poker Boy, and just about every superhero, once had a childhood, a life as a young adult, without powers. I only discovered my Poker Boy super abilities later in life, after I had lived a fairly regular life until the age of twenty-nine. Little did I know that some day I would put on the black leather jacket and the fedora-like hat and become Poker Boy, savior of blind women, lost husbands, and dogs.

      It was Christmas Eve, a holiday for me just about like

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