Deal Me in Challenge 2023!

What is the goal of this challenge?

To read 52 short stories in 2023 (that’s only one per week – versions with a lesser story requirement are noted below)

What do I need?
1) Access to at least fifty-two short stories (don’t own any short story collections or anthologies? See links to online resources below).
2) A deck of cards.
3) An average of perhaps just thirty minutes of reading time each week.
It's fun and not time consuming so what are you waiting for? Join up! 

It's time to start off 2023 right with the Deal Me In Challenge! My reading habits have steadily declined over the last few years and the pandemic did not help matters either. I am hoping these short stories can help reignite my passion for literature once again! The four categories will be as follows: 

Spades: LeVar Burton Reads

A - Cuisine des Memoires by N.K. Jemisin

2 - Chivalry by Neil Gaiman

3 - Mister Hadj's Sunset by Saladin Ahmed

4 - Free Jim's Mine by Tananarive Due

5 - Four stations in his Circle by Austin Clarke

6 - The Simplest Equation by Nicky Drayden

7 - Childfinder by Octavia Butler

8 - No Man's Guns by Elmore Leonard

9 - Jump by Cadwell Turnbull

10 - Graham Greene by Percival Everett

J - The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami

Q - The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar

K - Goat by James McBride

Clubs: Black American Writers Anthology

A - On Being Crazy by W.E.B. Dubois

2 - Mama's Missionary Money by Chester Himes

3 - Steady Going Up by Maya Angelou

4 - Truant by Claude McKay

5 - Exodus by James Baldwin

6 - Organizer's Wife by Toni Cade Bambara

7 -  Solo on the Drums by Ann Petry

8 - On Friday Morning by Langston Huges

9 -  Boy Who Painted Christ Black by John Henrik Clarke

10 - Bright and Morning Star by Richard Wright 

J -  And/Or by Sterling Brown

Q - Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston

K - Cry for Me by William Melvin Kelley

Diamonds: Random

A - Jaunt by Stephen King

2 - A Hyannis Port Story by Kurt Vonnegut

3 - The Egg by Andy Weir

4 - The Simulacrum by Ken Liu

5 -  Omphalos by Ted Chiang 

6 - I'd Love You to Want me by Viet Thanh Nguyen

7 - Your Lover is calling by John Updike

8 - That in Aleepo Once... by Vladimir Nabokov

9 - How to make love to a Physicist by Deeshaw Philyaw

10 - Ritual by Crystal Wilkinson

J -  Jerry and Molly and Sam by Raymond Carver

Q - Amnesty by Octavia Butler

K - The Book of Martha by Octavia Butler

Hearts: African and Caribbean writers

A - Song of Sixpence by Sam Selvon

2 - Girls at War by Chinua Achebe

3 - Berry by Kimmisha Thomas

4 - Minutes of Glory by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ’o

5 - Cooked Meat by Arees Mohamed

6 - Something to Hitch Meat to by Nalo Hopkinson

7 - Miss Lora by Junot Diaz

8 - A Private Experience by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

9 - Frying Plantain by Zlaika Reid-Benta

10 - Heading South by Dany Laferrière

J - The Baker's Story by V.S. Naipul

Q - How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique

K - Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys