Dean Wesley Smith

Sky Tate works as a superhero detective in the Poker Boy Universe. And sometimes she gets very unusual cases.This time Sky must help a woman find o...

Stout, the owner of the Garden Lounge always thought he could control the time machine disguised as a jukebox by keeping it unplugged. Then one day...

Time traveler and historian Spaulding Johns loved watching the sunrise on Rainbow Peak from his cabin in a valley in the Idaho Wilderness.He stayed...

Institute traveler, Sharon Kent, wants to keep a man who existed in the past alive. She likes him, and they had set a date for dinner before he w...

Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) sometimes, for fun, takes cases from insurance companies. She finds them mostly fun and sh...

Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) can see when someone seems about to die. Her new client looks almost dead. Sky first needs...

Sometimes Sky Tate gets a client who really needs help for all the right reasons, just doesn’t know how to ask.Sky, over the hundreds of years be...

Andy Neilson noticed the time traveler, Terri Allen, one fine day in the caverns under the Institute.And seems she noticed him as well. But they mi...

Sometimes the special jukebox in the Garden Lounge does more than take a person back to a memory. Sometimes it brings a memory to the bar. And when...

Marble Grant and the love of her life, Sims, while working in the Golden Nugget Casino, run across a man who they cannot read. Will he kill, will...

Dita Jean Harris believed that long-haired Henry Nye died under the mudslide that submerged the mining boomtown of Roosevelt. Idaho in 1909. But co...

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 ...

This story resulted from an invitation from Writers of the Future to write a story around a wonderful Bob Eggleton cover done for Volume 35. One of...

In the Thunder Mountain story “Lost Canyon,” published in Smith’s Monthly #62, two travelers meet in a lost canyon and fall in love.Only problem wi...

In a very secluded canyon in 1903, deep in the Idaho mountains, historical researchers from the present discover a very tragic secret.And they also...

Golf Professional David Moore never expected a naked woman to be the prize for winning a golf tournament. Yet there she sat beside him in the golf ...

When men start getting run over by slow-moving train cars in a gold rush town in the mountains of Idaho, Marshal Duster Kendal must solve the murde...

A bar, five friends, and a very special jukebox that lets you time travel back to a memory for the length of the song. What could go wrong with giv...

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made a different decision? A bar napkin with a strange saying and a dragon gives Ric...

Six really, really, really weird ghost stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean p...

She raised a child when on a trip into the past of another timeline. Seemingly a great child with lots of accomplishments. She raised him in an inf...

Sometimes saving the day and telling your wife the truth about it just ain’t a good idea, especially when it comes to eating dinner and snacks on a...

Sky Tate, the best female detective in the world, gets a new client by the name of Debbie. Debbie seems, at first glance, to be desperately tryin...

Mary Jo hated her most recent job of killing a woman named Bonnie Malak. Something felt off. So Mary Jo, with her lover and fellow assassin, Jean, ...