The Old Girlfriend of Doom — Dean Wesley Smith

Even superheroes can't always save the girl. As one of the greatest superheroes in all of the Gambling Universe, Poker Boy does everything he can to help, but when the damsel in distress doesn't want to be rescued from her own deadly breasts, what's a superhero to do?

“The Old Girlfriend of Doom” was first published in the anthology Crime Spells in February 2009 edited by Loren L. Coleman and Martin H. Greenberg from Daw Books.

Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred 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. Soon he will be again editing for Fiction River.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name and having great fun as an indie writer as well.