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He calls himself The Presumptive.
Poker Boy thinks that might be the most stupid nickname he ever heard at a poker table.
So Poker Boy calls him Idiot Boy (but not to his face) because of the name and the guy’s bad play.
But in Poker Boy’s world, nothing ever turns out the way they look. Even for Idiot Boy.
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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 Rude Improbable Presumptive - Dean Wesley Smith
He calls himself The Presumptive.
Poker Boy thinks that might be the most stupid nickname he ever heard at a poker table.
So Poker Boy calls him Idiot Boy (but not to his face) because of the name and the guy’s bad play.
But in Poker Boy’s world, nothing ever turns out the way they look. Even for Idiot Boy.
CHAPTER ONE
HE CALLED HIMSELF The Presumptive.
That might have been the most stupid nickname I have ever heard a guy call himself at a poker table.
But Idiot Boy (as I liked to call him, but not out loud) thought the name fit his poker playing, I guess making him the presumptive winner. Actually, from his poker game, his nickname should have been Long-Time Loser.
The game was a good one, a nice no-limit game at
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