2016

Here is my Deal Me In 2016 list of short stories:

ON MY SHELF ♠

A	Spades	Christmas Gift	Robert Penn Warren
K	Spades	Big Two-Hearted River	Ernest Hemingway
Q	Spades	Crazy Sunday	F. Scott Fitzgerald
J	Spades	Double Birthday	Willa Cather
10	Spades	Filthy With Things	T. C. Boyle
9	Spades	Hunters in the Snow	Tobias Wolff
8	Spades	Defender of the Faith	Philip Roth
7	Spades	Rappaccini’s Daughter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
6	Spades	Thicker Than Liquor	Wendell Berry
5	Spades	The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien
4	Spades	The Diary of Adam and Eve	Mark Twain
3	Spades	Old Red	Caroline Gordon
2	Spades	WILD Slight Rebellion Off Madison	J. D. Salinger

CATHOLICISM ♣

A	Clubs	The Peach Stone	Paul Horgan
K	Clubs	Cheap in August	Graham Greene
Q	Clubs	The Hammer of God	G. K. Chesterton
J	Clubs	The Devil and Irv Cherniske	T. C. Boyle
10	Clubs	Emanuelle! Emanuelle!	Caroline Gordon
9	Clubs	Dawn	J. F. Powers
8	Clubs	Revelation	Flannery O’Connor
7	Clubs	Mrs. Cassidy’s Last Year	Mary Gordon
6	Clubs	The Whore’s Child	Richard Russo
5	Clubs	A Father’s Story	Andre Dubus
4	Clubs	Died and Gone to Vegas	Tim Gautreaux
3	Clubs	The Rich Brother	Tobias Wolff
2	Clubs	WILD: The Life You Save May Be Your Own	Flannery O’Connor

BASEBALL ♦

A	Diamonds	The Hector Quesadilla Story	T. C. Boyle
K	Diamonds	Goodwood Comes Back	Robert Penn Warren
Q	Diamonds	You Could Look It Up	James Thurber
J	Diamonds	What Did We Do Wrong?	Garrison Keillor
10	Diamonds	Jamesie	J. F. Powers
9	Diamonds	Horseshoes	Ring Lardner
8	Diamonds	Home Run	Steven Millhauser
7	Diamonds	The Master’s Touch	Herbert Warren Wind
6	Diamonds	Smoke	Michael Chabon
5	Diamonds	Brooklyns Lose	William Heuman
4	Diamonds	Baseball Hattie	Damon Runyon
3	Diamonds	The Pitcher and the Plutocrat	P. G. Wodehouse
2	Diamonds	WILD The National Pastime	John Cheever

KENTUCKY ♥

A	Hearts	That Distant Land	Wendell Berry
K	Hearts	Blackberry Winter	Robert Penn Warren
Q	Hearts	Homeland	Barbara Kingsolver
J	Hearts	Residents and Transients	Bobbie Ann Mason
10	Hearts	Humming Back Yesterday	Crystal E. Wilkinson
9	Hearts	The Petrified Woman	Caroline Gordon
8	Hearts	Barred Owl	Chris Offutt
7	Hearts	The Vireo’s Nest	Hollis Summers
6	Hearts	The Perfecting of the Chopin Valse No. 14 in E Minor	Sena Jeter Naslund
5	Hearts	Anthem of the Locusts	Dean Cadle
4	Hearts	Dr. Livingston’s Grotto	Normandi Ellis
3	Hearts	The Idea of It	Chris Holbrook
2	Hearts	WILD: The Legend of Potato Creek	Maurice Thompson