Dried Up — Dean Wesley Smith

Asked in the middle of the night to help the dangerous race called Silicon Suckers, Poker Boy faces a challenge like none other. He and Front Desk Girl risk their lives to help the alien-looking creatures, but then come face-to-face with what their bargain just might mean in the future.

Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith is the author of over one hundred novels and hundreds of short stories. Not only has he written for Pocket Book in the Star Trek universe, but he also did the only two original Men in Black novels for Bantam Books. He has been an editor and a publisher and is currently writing thrillers under another name.

If you liked “Dried Up,” you might also like these other Poker Boy stories:

The Old Girlfriend of Doom
Sighed the Snake
Luck Be A Lady
Dead Even
Pink Shoes
Daddy is an Undertaker
Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy
Not Salable For Sale

There are also two Poker Boy five-story collections available in electronic editions and coming soon in trade paperback.

Five From the Felt
The Women of the Felt.