Between Showers

All he wanted to do was wash his green Rambler Classic, but the volcano blew and started dumping ash everywhere.

And just wouldn’t stop.

An end-of-the-world story for one man who just really wanted it to rain by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.

When Mt. Saint Helens blew, Dean Wesley Smith was downwind and even though the ash fall was only about ten inches outside his house, it felt like this story. And he never once owned a green Rambler, but he drove his mother’s at times.

Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and hundreds of 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. He is now an executive editor for Fiction River.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name