Here’s my Deal Me In short story list for 2020:
| A | Spades | “That in Aleppo Once…” | Vladimir Nabokov |
| K | Spades | The Resemblance Between a Violin | Tennessee Williams |
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| Q | Spades | The Ledge | Lawrence Sargent Hall |
| J | Spades | Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers | Stanley Elkin |
| 10 | Spades | How to Win | Rosellen Brown |
| 9 | Spades | Where I’m Calling From | Raymond Carver |
| 8 | Spades | Birthmates | Gish Jen |
| 7 | Spades | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6 | Spades | The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| 5 | Spades | The Rats in the Walls | H. P. Lovecraft |
| 4 | Spades | Battle Royal | Ralph Ellison |
| 3 | Spades | The Persistence of Desire | John Updike |
| 2 | Spades | WILD: Banana Boats | Mary Ann Taylor-Hall |
| A | Diamonds | Silent Retreats | Philip F. Deaver |
| K | Diamonds | Resident Priest | Jon Hassler |
| Q | Diamonds | Geneseo | Philip F. Deaver |
| J | Diamonds | The Men | Jane Mayhall |
| 10 | Diamonds | Bare Bones | Sallie Bingham |
| 9 | Diamonds | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant | Robert Hazel |
| 8 | Diamonds | The Taste of Ironwater | Jim Wayne Miller |
| 7 | Diamonds | White Rat | Gayl Jones |
| 6 | Diamonds | The Affair with Rachel Ware | Jane Stuart |
| 5 | Diamonds | Maxine | Gurney Norman |
| 4 | Diamonds | Rent Control | Walter Tevis |
| 3 | Diamonds | A Fellow Making Himself Up | Leon V. Driskell |
| 2 | Diamonds | WILD: The Bath | Raymond Carver |
| A | Clubs | Winter Facts | Mary Ann Taylor-Hall |
| K | Clubs | The Fugitive | Richard Cortez Day |
| Q | Clubs | If You Can’t Win | James Baker Hall |
| J | Clubs | Bypass | Lisa Koger |
| 10 | Clubs | Belinda’s World Tour | Guy Davenport |
| 9 | Clubs | The Way It Felt to be Falling | Kim Edwards |
| 8 | Clubs | Clouds | Paul Griner |
| 7 | Clubs | Deferment | Dwight Allen |
| 6 | Clubs | Roger Malvin’s Burial | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 5 | Clubs | My Kinsman, Major Molineux | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4 | Clubs | The Ambitious Guest | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3 | Clubs | The Great Carbuncle | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2 | Clubs | WILD At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners | Lauren Groff |
| A | Hearts | Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| K | Hearts | Lady Eleanor’s Mantle | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Q | Hearts | Egotism, or, The Bosom Serpent | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| J | Hearts | The Birthmark | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 10 | Hearts | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Ernest Hemingway |
| 9 | Hearts | The Mother of a Queen | Ernest Hemingway |
| 8 | Hearts | The Swimmers | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 7 | Hearts | Babylon Revisited | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 6 | Hearts | What It Was Like, Seeing Chris | Deborah Eisenberg |
| 5 | Hearts | The Failure | Jonathan Franzen |
| 4 | Hearts | Children Are Bored on Sunday | Jean Stafford |
| 3 | Hearts | Partners | Veronica Geng |
| 2 | Hearts | WILD: Paladin of the Lost Hour | Harlan Ellison |
Mirror with Clouds 