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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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    Four Suits: A Deck of 100-Word Stories

    By Ran Walker

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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
    PublisherBlack and Square
    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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      Book preview

      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

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

      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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