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Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, April 11, 2016, 978-1-56146-649-8, $19.99, 348pp, tp, oc)     Reprint (WMG Publishing 2015) original collection of 32 short stories written, one each day (plus one extra), in July 2015 together with 32 articles about the writing of each story. Subtitled “32 Original Stories Written in July 2015”. 5 · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 9 · The Case of the Dead Lady Blues [Pilgrim Hugh] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 21 · A Bad Patch of Humanity [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 31 · They Were Divided by Cold Debt [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 43 · The Problem of Grapevine Springs [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 55 · Best Eaten on a Slow Tuesday · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 63 · A Matter for a Future Year [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 73 · Roses Around the Moment [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 87 · For the Delusion That Waited · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 91 · Here to Stay on the Edge · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 101 · The Great Alien Vibration · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 111 · A Great First Day [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 123 · The Face in the Fullness of Time · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 129 · Why Delay? Just Rub [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 139 · The Stone Slept Here · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 147 · An Obscene Crime Against Passion [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 159 · Make Myself Just One More [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 169 · Gods Have History [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 181 · Idanha Hotel [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 193 · Something Wasted On · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 201 · Nobody Slept Here [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 213 · Leaking Away a Life [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv 227 · Coffee Shop Comedy [Danny and Dora] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 237 · The Cavern [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 251 · A Bad Day for the Dream [Cold Poker Gang] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 261 · The Remodeling of a Life [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 269 · Dreaming Large [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 281 · To Remember a Single Minute · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 289 · The Case of the Lost Treasure [Pilgrim Hugh] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 301 · A Study of an Accident [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 311 · The Lady of Whispering Valley [Buckey the Space Pirate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 321 · The Rude Improbable Presumptive [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 331 · Start with a Coffin [Captain Brian Saber] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss

Through the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, September 28, 2017, 978-1-56146-783-9, $6.99, 140pp, tp, co)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 4 · Jukebox Gifts [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1994 44 · The Songs of Memory [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, January 20 2011 66 · The Wages of the Moment [Thunder Mountain; Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 26 2013 82 · Our Slaying Song Tonight [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2011 106 · Black Betsy [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Alternate Outlaws ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1994

Too Strange for the Name by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, November 4, 2021, 978-1-56146-596-5, $6.99, 140pp, tp, co)     Subtitled “Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Stories with Sex”. Details taken from Table of Contents. vi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Don’t Rust on Me Now · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, March 4 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 21 · Iron Eyebrows · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 7 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield; subtitled “A Romance with Too Much Hair”. 37 · Mated from the Morgue · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, April 7 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 53 · The Romance Novel Challenge · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, June 10 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield; given as “The Romance Novel Challenge” in the Table of Contents. 75 · Squatter’s Rights on the Street of Broken Men · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, July 13 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 101 · If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess? · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #5, February 2014

Weird Crime by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 26, 2021, 978-1-56146-592-7, $6.99, 138pp, tp, co, cover by Paulfleet & Depositphotos)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · After the Dance · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #18, March 2015 17 · Death in the Morning [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #37, October 2016 45 · Center Drives [Sky Tate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #49, May 2021 59 · Cheerleader Revelation · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, May 13 2013 81 · Eyes on My Cards [Doc Hill] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Fiction River Special #1, Crime 2014 103 · I Killed Adam Chaser · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #3, December 2013

An Afterlife of Really Creepy Stories: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 17, 2024, 978-1-56146-004-5, $16.99, 272pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xiii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Harry the Ghost Pirate · Robert J. McCarter · ss X Marks the Spot ed. Lisa Mangum, WordFire Press, 2020 23 · New Beginnings · R. W. Wallace · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #17, 2022 49 · The Eyeball at the End of the Rainbow [Dan Shamble] · Kevin J. Anderson · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #27, 2024 81 · Waiting for the Hunger [Greystone Bay] · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Doom City ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1987 95 · Scrooge and Marley · David H. Hendrickson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #24, 2023 111 · When the Cows Come Home · Keith West · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #28, 2024 127 · The Spirit House · Lisa S. Silverthorne · nv Quantum Speculative Fiction ed. Kurt Roth, Obscura Press, 1999 153 · All Things Must End · Scott Edelman · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #29, 2024 169 · After · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #29, 2024 181 · Grief Spam · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Fiction River #36, Dark & Deadly Passions 2021

Alibi Murder: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 28, 2023, 978-1-56146-876-8, $9.99, 176pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Market Street · O’Neil De Noux · ss Crimewave #1, 1999 17 · January 3rd · Ron Collins · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13, 2021 37 · Last Job · Rebecca M. Senese · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 51 · A Fool and His Money · Jerry Oltion · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #16, 2022 69 · Death of a Woman of Ill Repute · Annie Reed · ss Crimes of Yesteryear by Annie Reed, Thunder Valley Ink, 2020 87 · Cleanup Crew · Ray Vukcevich · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #17, 2022 93 · A Father’s Daughter · Lisa Silverthorne · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #19, 2022 103 · Self Service · J. Steven York · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #19, 2022 109 · Wishful Thinking [Dan Shamble] · Kevin J. Anderson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #4, Fall 2018 135 · At Witt’s End [Spade & Paladin] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018

Aliens Among Us: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, February 4, 2021, 978-1-56146-368-8, $9.99, 206pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · The Best Alien Stories from the Pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Planet Suds and the Sockpocalypse · Lisa Silverthorne · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9, 2020 17 · Human Subjects · Ray Vukcevich · ss Amazing Stories September 2004 29 · No Common Scents · Jim Gotaas · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #8, Fall 2019 51 · Suicide by UFO · Jerry Oltion · nv Science Fiction Review #2, Summer 1990 81 · Another Door · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #7, Summer 2019 101 · The Injustice Collector · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv I, Alien ed. Mike Resnick, DAW, 2005 137 · My Socks Rolled Down · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 13 2011 151 · Alien Automotive · Kent Patterson · vi Analog Science Fiction and Fact January 1993 159 · The Time Cop · Patrick Alan Mammay · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #2, April 2018 173 · Blackbeard’s Aliens · Robert Jeschonek · ss Pie Press, 2012

The Alien Who Ate My Homework and Burped: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 17, 2024, 978-1-56146-994-9, $16.99, 224pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Francesca and the Sentient Peaches from Outer Space · Bonnie Elizabeth · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #23, 2023 13 · The Sleeping Agent · Charlotte Munich · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #25, 2024 41 · Objects of Desire · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · nv Alien Pets ed. Denise Little, DAW, 1998 65 · Power Chords · Brigid Collins · ss Snot-Nosed Aliens ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2019 81 · A Nice Short Conversation · Robert J. McCarter · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #26, 2024 95 · The Bobs · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #26, 2024 113 · Walking the Dog · J. Steven York · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13, 2021 125 · The 1970s Must Die! · Robert Jeschonek · ss Space: 1975, Pie Press, 2021 155 · From the Good Old Days · Jim Gotaas · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9, 2020 187 · Two-Minute Drill · David H. Hendrickson · ss Snot-Nosed Aliens ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2019

Cattitude: The Best Cat Stories from the First Three Years of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, June 10, 2021, 978-1-56146-496-8, $9.99, 158pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 5 · Queen of the Mouse Riders · Annie Reed · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018 33 · The Fur Tsunami · Kent Patterson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #6, Spring 2019 57 · Bushtits Gone Wild · Stephanie Writt · ss Snot-Nosed Aliens ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2019 77 · The Goddess Particle · Daemon Crowe · ss Snot-Nosed Aliens ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2019 89 · An Incursion of Mice · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Fiction River #9, Fantastic Detectives, September 2014 105 · Erwin or Ralph · Ray Vukcevich · ss A Cat of Disdainful Looks ed. Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch, WMG Publishing, 2020 115 · The Mouth That Walked · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Amazing Stories July 1989 135 · Life, with Cats · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #8, Fall 2019

Destination Tomorrow or Yesterday: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 28, 2023, 978-1-56146-877-5, $9.99, 192pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Yesterday, When I Was Twenty · Angela Penrose · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11, 2021 23 · One Sun, No Waiting · Annie Reed · ss Thunder Valley Press, November 16 2013 37 · Ice in D Minor · Anthea Sharp · ss Timberland Writes Together, Timberland Regional Library, 2015 49 · Predict THIS · Michael D. Britton · ss Intelligent Life Books, 2012 65 · Time in Death · C. A. Rowland · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #14, 2021 85 · Time, Expressed as an Entrée · Robert Jeschonek · nv Fiction River #3, Time Streams, August 2013 107 · The Chicken Time Machine · Valerie Brook · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #4, Fall 2018 121 · With Light Years Between Us · Robert J. McCarter · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #8, Fall 2019 139 · Time Map · Robin Brande · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #20, 2022 161 · Red Letter Day · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact September 2010

Don’t Touch My Magic: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 14, 2021, 978-1-56146-584-2, $9.99, 174pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · In the Empire of Underpants · Robert T. Jeschonek · nv Fiction River #22, No Humans Allowed, April 2017 25 · Coyote and the Amazing Herbal Formula · Sabrina Chase · ss Worlds Away Press, January 28 2012 35 · Hand Fast · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Streets of Shadows ed. Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, Alliteration Ink, 2014 61 · The Reign to Come · Kevin J. Anderson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018 77 · A Magical Negro · Ezekiel James Boston · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #12, 2021 89 · This Magic Moment · Lisa Silverthorne · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #3, July 2018 103 · Unnatural Law · J. Steven York · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #6, Spring 2019 115 · PMS and a Hand Grenade · Brenda Carre · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #6, Spring 2019 127 · Custard: A Romeo & Juliet Story (Sort of) · Dayle A. Dermatis · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #10, 2021 139 · Queen of the Mouse Riders · Annie Reed · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018

Eating Our Way Through Christmas ed. Dean Wesley Smith & Nina Kiriki Hoffman--- see under Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

Ghosts Among Us: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 14, 2021, 978-1-56146-585-9, $9.99, 162pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Death by Vodka · Robert J. McCarter · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #12, 2021 11 · Dead Girlfriend · Ray Vukcevich · ss Rosebud #23, 2002 21 · The Writing on the Wall [Dan Shamble] · Kevin J. Anderson · ss Dark Discoveries #28, Summer 2014 45 · The Dead on Somerset Hill · Chuck Heintzelman · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #4, Fall 2018 59 · Dreams of Memories Never Lived · Rob Vagle · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #7, Summer 2019 75 · Flowers for Mother · J. Steven York · vi Buried Treasures ed. Jerry Oltion, Eugene Professional Writers Workshops, 1996 81 · Ghosts of Christmas Present · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Borderlands 3 ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993 103 · The Developmental Adventures of Phil · Jason A. Adams · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #10, 2021 111 · Salt · T. Thorn Coyle · ss Fantasy in the City ed. Jamie Ferguson, Kydala Publishing, 2016 127 · Just Desserts · R. W. Wallace · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9, 2020

History Repeats for No Reason: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 28, 2023, 978-1-56146-878-2, $9.99, 246pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Death of a Woman of Ill Repute · Annie Reed · ss Crimes of Yesteryear by Annie Reed, Thunder Valley Ink, 2020 23 · No. 40 Basin Street [Jacques Dugas] · O’Neil De Noux · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 2008 61 · Visage · Lisa Silverthorne · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #10, 2021 81 · Vital Force · P. D. Singer · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11, 2021 105 · Jesting Pilate · Lee Allred · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #12, 2021 129 · Christmas at Glosser’s · Robert Jeschonek · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #21, 2022 179 · The Session · Stephanie Writt · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #2, April 2018 189 · Rose in Dreamland · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Buried Treasures ed. Jerry Oltion, Eugene Professional Writers Workshops, 1996 201 · Moulin Rouge · Jason A. Adams · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #7, Summer 2019 221 · The Preacher’s Kid and the 2004 Red Sox · David H. Hendrickson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9, 2020

Implode the Membrane: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 29, 2023, 978-1-56146-879-9, $16.99, 184pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · The Short Life and Horny Times of a Teenage Mantis · David H. Hendrickson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #18, 2022 19 · Pot o’ Gold · Dan C. Duval · ss Buried Treasures ed. Jerry Oltion, Eugene Professional Writers Workshops, 1996 35 · Cleanup Crew · Ray Vukcevich · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #17, 2022 43 · Big Green Man · Don Webb · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #18, 2022 61 · Brick Houses · Annie Reed · ss Thunder Valley Press, July 15 2018 91 · Art of the Homeless · Joe Cron · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13, 2021 107 · Knowledge Blooms · Rob Vagle · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13, 2021 117 · The Cactus, the Coyote, and the Lost Planet Joyride · J. Steven York · ss Sirius*Visions March 21 1995 129 · The Last Lonely Day in the Orchard of Lost Travelers · Scott Edelman · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #19, 2022 143 · The Men Without Heads Join a Health Club · Robert Jeschonek · nv Boundary Shock Quarterly #4, 2018

Jingle My Bells: The Best Holiday Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, June 28, 2022, 978-1-56146-738-9, $9.99, 168pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Dreaming of a Carboniferous Christmas · Robert Jeschonek · ss Tales from the Canyons of the Damned #29, 2018 27 · Spells for the Holidays · Ray Vukcevich · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 33 · A Menagerie of Messed Up Shorts · Mark Leslie · ss That’s Really Messed Up ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2021 47 · An Ideal Husband · Jerry & Kathy Oltion · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 65 · Fatal Plot Device · Kelly Washington · ss That’s Really Messed Up ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2021 79 · Severed Ties · R. W. Wallace · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 103 · A Blood-Soaked Christmas Wish · David Stier · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 115 · Virtching Merry · Kent Patterson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 121 · Naughty Children · Mary McKenna · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 131 · Nutball Season · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Sci Fiction December 24 2003