The Smoke That Doesn't Bark: A Poker Boy Story

By Dean Wesley Smith

Gambling universe superhero Poker Boys loves saving dogs, even though that's not part of his duty in the gambling universe. He sometimes thinks he saves more dogs than he does people.

Now he and his team must use every skill they have to save not just one dog, but all dogs from a force that can't be stopped. Or can it?

Dean Wesley Smith is the international bestseller of over ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. He had also published a number of Poker Boy short stories and in the spring of 2011 WMG Publishing will bring out the first full Poker Boy novel The Slots of Saturn.
If you liked this story, you might also like these other Poker Boy stories:
The Old Girlfriend of Doom
Sighed the Snake
Luck Be a Lady
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• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Jan 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458126092

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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The Smoke That Doesn’t Bark

A Poker Boy Story

Dean Wesley Smith

Copyright © 2011 Dean Wesley Smith

Published by WMG Publishing

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The Smoke That Doesn’t Bark

A Poker Boy Story

Dean Wesley Smith

As a superhero in the gambling universe, I have no idea why I always end up saving dogs. It sure seems that every time there is a person for me to save there is also a dog that needs my help. Not always, but my sidekick, Patty Ledgerwood, aka Front Desk Girl, thought it funny because it happens so often. And as she said, It’s kinda sweet.

Sometimes the person who needs the help has the dog, other times the dog is not related in any way to the person I’m trying to help. I asked my boss, Stan the God of Poker, about it once and he just thought I was kidding. It seems that animals have their own gods that take care of them.

Stan told me that over the years there has been very little reason for the Gambling Gods to associate with the Gods of Animals and Reptiles. That made sense to me considering animals are not known for placing bets.

But sometimes the lines between the different branches of gods is not as clear as some people make them out to be.

It was New Year’s Eve, or more accurately two in the morning on New Year’s Day. One of my favorite things to do on New Year’s Eve was to play a tournament at the MGM Grand on the strip in Vegas. Granted, that is a long ways from my double-wide mobile home near a large Indian casino in Oregon, but Patty lives and works in Vegas, so I look for any reason to visit her