Another year for the luck of the draw! Here are my short stories for my 2014 Deal Me In project:
♠ 3 X 4
| A | ♠ | Herman Melville | The Piazza | |||
| K | ♠ | Herman Melville | Bartleby | |||
| Q | ♠ | Herman Melville | Benito Cereno | |||
| J | ♠ | Herman Melville | The Encantadas | |||
| 10 | ♠ | Graham Greene | The End of the Party | |||
| 9 | ♠ | Graham Greene | A Branch of the Service | |||
| 8 | ♠ | Graham Greene | Dream of a Strange Land | |||
| 7 | ♠ | Graham Greene | Alas, Poor Maling | |||
| 6 | ♠ | Ray Bradbury | Some Live Like Lazarus | |||
| 5 | ♠ | Ray Bradbury | Yes, We’ll Gather At The River | |||
| 4 | ♠ | Ray Bradbury | Kaleidoscope | |||
| 3 | ♠ | Ray Bradbury | Long After Midnight | |||
| 2 | ♠ | WILD James Baldwin | Sonny’s Blues | |||
♣4 X 3
| A | ♣ | Ernest Hemingway | Soldier’s Home | |||
| K | ♣ | Ernest Hemingway | Ten Indians | |||
| Q | ♣ | Ernest Hemingway | Now I Lay Me | |||
| J | ♣ | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Celestial Railroad | |||
| 10 | ♣ | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Young Goodman Brown | |||
| 9 | ♣ | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Ethan Brand | |||
| 8 | ♣ | Kurt Vonnegut | Mnemonics | |||
| 7 | ♣ | Kurt Vonnegut | Find Me A Dream | |||
| 6 | ♣ | Kurt Vonnegut | The Powder-Blue Dragon | |||
| 5 | ♣ | G. K. Chesterton | The Ghost of Gideon Wise | |||
| 4 | ♣ | G. K. Chesterton | The Red Moon of Meru | |||
| 3 | ♣ | G. K. Chesterton | The Song of the Flying Fish | |||
| 2 | ♣ | WILD | Mark Helprin | Perfection | ||
♥ 6 X 2
| A | ♥ | TrumanCapote | A Diamond Guitar | |||
| K | ♥ | TrumanCapote | Mojave | |||
| Q | ♥ | Edith Wharton | The Bolted Door | |||
| J | ♥ | Edith Wharton | The House of the Dead Hand | |||
| 10 | ♥ | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Merry Men | |||
| 9 | ♥ | Robert Louis Stevenson | Will O’ the Mill | |||
| 8 | ♥ | Jack London | Negore, The Coward | |||
| 7 | ♥ | Jack London | An Odyssey of the North | |||
| 6 | ♥ | Zane Grey | The Manager of Madden’s Hill | |||
| 5 | ♥ | Zane Grey | The Red Headed Outfield | |||
| 4 | ♥ | Ring Lardner | Alibi Ike | |||
| 3 | ♥ | Ring Lardner | Haircut | |||
| 2 | ♥ | WILD Salman Rushdie | Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship (Santa Fe, AD 1492) | |||
♦12X1
| A | ♦ | Saki | The Recessional | ||||
| K | ♦ | Katherine Anne Porter | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | ||||
| Q | ♦ | Anton Chekhov | The Bet | ||||
| J | ♦ | George MacDonald | The Gifts of the Child Christ | ||||
| 10 | ♦ | Henryk Sienkiewicz | The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall | ||||
| 9 | ♦ | Mark Twain | The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | ||||
| 8 | ♦ | Conrad Aiken | Silent Snow, Secret Snow | ||||
| 7 | ♦ | Dorothy Parker | The Waltz | ||||
| 6 | ♦ | James Thurber | University Days | ||||
| 5 | ♦ | Bernard Malamud | A Summer’s Reading | ||||
| 4 | ♦ | John Steinbeck | Junius Maltby | ||||
| 3 | ♦ | Flannery O’Connor | Everything That Rises Must Converge | ||||
| 2 | ♦ | WILD | Junot Diaz | Edison, New Jersey | |||
Mirror with Clouds 
Okay, Dale, you’re starting to get me amped up for DMI2014 now! (And I’m totally ok with that, of course!)
You have a great roster to look forward to also. It took me a moment before I “got” your 3×4, 4×3, etc., but I like that nomenclature – and with there being twelve per suit left after wild cards, that’s a nice even number for multiple denominators. 🙂
I’ve read about a dozen of yours, but your list also includes seven authors I haven’t ever read, which is great because I can lookforward being introduced to them by you.
I’m not sure yet what all my sources will be. I did pick up the 2012 edition ofThe Best American Short Stories series, which will likely yield a dozen or so. I’d also like to have one of my suits be “indie” authors – I liked the recent anthology I read through and have had some dialogue with a few of the writers here and on twitter which is kind of cool. I never thought I’d get to this point, but space among my fifty-two stories may be at a premium…
-Jay
Jay, I like your posts about indie writers. I look forward to hearing more! I think it’s been just as much fun coming up with my list as it is reading them. I agree that the 52 spaces can get filled up quick. I stumbled upon the fact that Zane Grey wrote baseball stories as well as westerns when I traveled through his hometown in Ohio while I was on vacation. I had already been thinking about Ring Lardner. I hoping at least one of these stories will pop up during baseball season…
-Dale