Description:

As Smart As You Are, He Was, And As Bad As He Is, He Was is a collection of twelve short stories by Bill Kte'pi:

"Reach"
"Straight On Till Morning"
"The Minotaur"
"Start With Color"
"The Ballad of Steven Rocketship"
"Kid Vicious Hits It"
"The Kingfish and the Tunguska Machine"
"Downbelow Domino"
"David Bowie's Mars Triptych"
"You Can Walk On the Moon if the Mood's Right"
"A River Beneath the Earth Where it's Always Cold"
"We Three Kings of Orien Tar"

The stories include horror, science fiction, alternate history, and things less classifiable: Peter Pan's shadow, a dreaming spaceship, a world where dreams come to life and the police protect us from them, a dying astronaut named David Bowie, a superhero who's lost his powers, and several ghosts.

Includes both new and previously published stories.