The Woman Who Knew the Time: Bryant Street

By Dean Wesley Smith

On Bryant Street, really strange things happen. Usually they exist with a fantasy twist or a Twilight Zone feel.

But every so often other things happen. Science fiction things like time travel. Battling time travel.

With robbery. Yeah, only on Bryant Street.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Dec 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201928209

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 Woman Who Knew the Time

THE WOMAN WHO KNEW THE TIME

A BRYANT STREET STORY

DEAN WESLEY SMITH

WMG Publishing, Inc.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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CHAPTER ONE

Sally Lawrence had shoulder-length auburn hair. Not red, not brunette, auburn, like the fall leaves. The hair curled seemingly naturally over her collar, just touching her shoulders if she tilted her head one way or another.

She stood in front of me in the food court, in the line for Big Taco’s Big Truck a block from the courthouse in downtown Boise. I could see a few freckles and a nifty small mole on her neck that appeared in and out of sight, taunting me.

The day was warm, not too hot, so she wore a light white blouse and carried a light Levi jacket over her arm with her blue purse. Her jeans and blue tennis shoes completed the casual afternoon outfit perfectly.

She had what I called a runner’s body. Thin, in shape, and moved smoothly