Cutting Down Fred: A Buckey the Space Pirate Story

By Dean Wesley Smith

One fine summer night Buckey the Space Pirate takes his girlfriend for a little excitement to a local park. He hoped for a sexual adventure and ended up meeting Fred, a talking oak tree.

With a talking oak tree, adventure and bad limericks never end.

A time-travel story by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.

Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and hundreds of 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. He is now an executive editor for Fiction River.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Dec 31, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458041043

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four 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, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he 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.

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Cutting Down Fred

A Buckey the Space Pirate Story

Dean Wesley Smith

Cutting Down Fred

Copyright © 2013 Dean Wesley Smith

Published by WMG Publishing

Cover design copyright © 2013 WMG Publishing

Cover Illustration by Mark Plumley/Dreamstime.com

Cutting Down Fred was first published 1993 in Dinosaur Fantastic

edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenburg, published by Daw Books.

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One

I tried to make love under Fred for the first time on a warm October evening two years ago.

It was right in the middle of Big John's annual Halloween bash, the very same party that keeps three square city blocks of the city up all night. My current girlfriend, Annie, was in one of her moods, none of which I ever figured out. So when I suggested, after six very fast and hot dances, that we go somewhere cool, take off some costumes and really get hot, she laughed and said she would love to.

But she wanted to go somewhere new. She said she was tired of my apartment and "those