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Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories
Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories
Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories
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Modeled after a deck of playing cards, Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories contains 54 100-word stories, one story per card.

With stories built around various interpretations of numbers and suits, this collection brings a variety of new stories from the prolific mind of one of microfiction's rising stars.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 21, 2024
ISBN9781961753037
Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories
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Ran Walker

Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of over 30 books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's 2019 National Indie Author of the Year Award, the 2019 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the 2018 Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the 2021 Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. Ran is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.

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    Four Suits - Ran Walker

    Four Suits

    BLACK AND SQUARE PAPERBACK EDITION

    © 2024 Randolph Walker, Jr.

    All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Black and Square, a division of 45 Alternate Press, LLC.

    This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

    No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    Portions of this work first appeared in the following: A ♣️ in Writer’s Digest (2024); 4 ♥️, 9 ♥️, and Q ♠️ in The Hampton Renaissance (2024).

    Cover photo courtesy of ammiel jr

    ISBN: 978-1-961753-02-0 (Paperback)

    ISBN: 978-1-961753-03-7 (Ebook)

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2024908422

    First Edition

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    Black and Square

    Hampton Roads, VA

    Four Suits

    A DECK OF 100-WORD STORIES

    RAN WALKER

    Contents

    Preface

    I. Hearts

    A ♥️

    2 ♥️

    3 ♥️

    4 ♥️

    5 ♥️

    6 ♥️

    7 ♥️

    8 ♥️

    9 ♥️

    10 ♥️

    J ♥️

    Q ♥️

    K ♥️

    II. Spades

    A ♠️

    2 ♠️

    3 ♠️

    4 ♠️

    5 ♠️

    6 ♠️

    7 ♠️

    8 ♠️

    9 ♠️

    10 ♠️

    J ♠️

    Q ♠️

    K ♠️

    III. Diamonds

    A ♦️

    2 ♦️

    3 ♦️

    4 ♦️

    5 ♦️

    6 ♦️

    7 ♦️

    8 ♦️

    9 ♦️

    10 ♦️

    J ♦️

    Q ♦️

    K ♦️

    IV. Clubs

    A ♣️

    2 ♣️

    3 ♣️

    4 ♣️

    5 ♣️

    6 ♣️

    7 ♣️

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