Daddy is an Undertaker: A Poker Boy story. by Smith Dean Wesley

Author:Smith, Dean Wesley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: death, humor, fantasy, short story, gods, poker, death and dying, casino, gambling, wmg publishing, dean wesley smith, poker boy story, poker boy
Publisher: WMG Publishing

Four

In my few short years of being a superhero, I had never been so scared of an assignment. Somehow the three of us, with Stan’s help, needed to link up a god, Death himself, and his daughter in an out-of-time link so that he could have the time to talk to her. And we needed to help her understand what was coming, and that it was all right that she was going to die.

Or sort of die, anyway.

If we screwed this up, none of us might live to see the end of the year.

If that long.

I had a hunch Mortuary Dan wouldn’t think twice about just moving us on to the next place, wherever or whatever that was.

Stan gave me and Patty a lift to pick up Lisa.

When we appeared in her suite, she was still dressed in the same red, white, and blue outfit and was sitting on the couch. Clearly she had been sitting there since she arrived.

When she saw us, she jumped and rolled up over the back of the couch to get it between her and us.

I glanced at Patty. “She doesn’t know anything at all about Gods and Superheroes, does she?”

“Not much I discovered,” Patty said.

“How did you do that?” Lisa asked.

“I’ve been wondering the same thing,” I said, glancing at Stan, who just shrugged. “We’ve got some good news for you,” I continued, as Patty and I started working to calm her down with all the calming powers we had between us.

“You do?” she asked, clearly relaxing and even starting to smile, forgetting that we had just appeared out of nowhere in front of her.

“You’re not going to die at midnight,” I said, fibbing a little. She actually wasn’t going to die. She just wasn’t going to be mortal anymore.

A slight detail.

“But there’s one condition,” Patty said. “You need to talk to your dad. And your dad wants us there with you for support.”

Lisa started shaking her head back and forth and I could feel the panic starting to gain intensity.

I dug deep and Patty and I joined hands and hit her with every calming power we had. And I have to say, that was considerable. We could have put a bull moose to sleep.

Lisa calmed some.

“It’s only to talk,” I said. “He needs to tell you where the rumor is coming from and why it exists. He said your mother should have taught you all of this.”

“All she said was that my daddy is an Undertaker – the Grim Reaper.”

“Well, he sort of is,” I said. “And a pretty fine surfer, from what I gather.”

“My father surfs?” Lisa asked, calming even more under the intense push of calming powers from me and Patty.

“Eleven months a year that’s about all he does,” Patty said, smiling.

Lisa finally stopped shaking her head and stared first at me, then at Stan. “Who exactly are you people?”

“I am known as Poker Boy. I am at the rank of superhero in the Gambling Gods universe, which basically means I do a lot of the chores the gods don’t want to do.

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