Tarot Flash Fiction Collection: Deck I

By Benjamin David Knight

Between colourful medieval illustrations live sundered kings, childsnatching drunks and doomsday cultists, all with certain fates.
Tarot Stories: Deck I is a collection of ten pieces of flash fiction, each one telling of fortunes and futures in this world and beyond. This first instalment is a compilation of Benjamin David Knight's ongoing Tarot flash fiction series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Benjamin David Knight
• Release date: Mar 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310063121

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Contents

Introduction

The Fool

Judgement

The Empress

Ace of Swords

King of Pentacles

Four of Cups

The Sun

The World

The Hanged Man

The Tower

TAROT

DECK I

Copyright 2015 Benjamin David Knight

Introduction

My attention span is fairly short, being very much into instant gratification and the fast route to fun. Obviously, this isn’t a redeeming quality in the slightest, but somewhere in that fatal flaw was the door into writing flash fiction; stories short enough to keep my interest in the story fresh, while still having the legroom to fit an entire story.

And this is a collection of just that.

Initially inspired by Neil Gaiman’s short story 15 Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot, I began an exercise in drawing a tarot card at random (from a virtual deck, I’m not made of money), looking into the themes the card represents, and writing a story incorporating said themes. Think of it this way; each character in each of these stories, at some point in their lives, drew the card that their tale if preceded by.

This is the first set, or deck. Between the colourful medieval illustrations live sundered kings, childsnatching drunks and doomsday cultists, all with certain fates.

I’d like to thank the administrators of Serennu.com for providing me with the virtual deck my subjects are chosen from, and those of Biddytarot.com, for providing information on what each card actually means. Oh, and Neil Gaiman, whose insanely diverse work provides a veritable well of inspiration.

I hope you get some kind of sick kick out of these stories. If not entirely satisfied, please lodge a complaint with farpastures.wordpress.com, where I’m currently adding more of these stories on a weekly basis.

Finally, thanks for reading. You’re beautiful and I love you.

Benjamin

The Fool

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