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and long coat. This man bankrupts all the other players with his own brand of precision throwing, and Joe loses all his money upon accidentally rolling a double-six. Instead of ending the game at this point, however, the Big Gambler offers to bet all his winnings, plus the world and everything in it, against Joe's life and soul. By now, Joe has come to believe that he is facing off against Death incarnate.
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Joe possesses a remarkable skill for precision throwing and can make dice show whatever number he wants when he rolls them. Joining a high-stakes game of craps, he uses this talent to win several thousand dollars before confronting the table's "Big Gambler", a pale figure hidden beneath a dark hat
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Out on the sidewalk, he finds that he has held onto a piece of the Big Gambler's skull, which looks suspiciously like a piece of pastry. Tasting it, he discovers that it is in fact made of bread and remembers the loaves his wife had been putting into the oven when he left, shaped like the Big
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to supplement the family's income, while his elderly mother lives with them and regularly voices her disapproval of his lifestyle. His only outlet comes in the form of occasional visits to the local gambling parlors, where he routinely loses all his money, gets drunk, and has sex with
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The stolen chips prove to be communion wafers, as evidenced by the cross imprinted on each one. Now free of his wife's influence and with a pocketful of food, he goes home "the long way, around the world."
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Joe Slattermill is a poor miner whose home life serves as a never-ending source of frustration. His wife works at home as a
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Gambler's skull and ribcage. He realizes that she had somehow created this adversary in order to humiliate him.
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The story was adapted as a children's book, written by Sarah L. Thomson, illustrated by
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called "Gonna Roll the Bones" a "rather effective" story.
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Index

Short story
Fritz Leiber
Fantasy
Dangerous Visions
Harlan Ellison
Fritz Leiber
craps
Death
Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions
Hugo Award
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
David Wiesner
baker
prostitutes
snake eyes
Algis Budrys
"Galaxy Bookshelf"
"Gonna Roll the Bones"
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
v
t
e
Fritz Leiber
Novels
Conjure Wife
Destiny Times Three
The Big Time
The Wanderer
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold

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