2016 Deal Me In Short Story Challenge

Deal Me In is a short story challenge hosted by Bibliophilopolis where each participant makes a list of 52 short stories, one for each week of the year, and assigns each one to a card in a deck of playing cards. I'll randomly select a card each week to determine which story to read and write a short review of them from time-to-time. I decided to assign the cards around a few anthologies that have been sitting around my house unread but left myself a few "wild" story options to shake things up! I don't read short stories very regularly, so I'm curious to see how this will affect my reading plans for 2016.

Hearts: Original Bavarian Folktales: A Schönwerth Selection by Franz Schönwerth
♥A♥– *wild*
♥2♥– "Love, Marriage, and Childbirth" (week 14)
♥3♥ – "Motherhood, Drudes, and Changelings" (week 13)
♥4♥ – "Premonitions, Ghosts, and Poor Souls"

♥5♥ – "Witches and their Familiars" (week 11)
♥6♥ – "The Elements: Earth I--Fruits of the Earth" (week 5)
♥7♥ – "The Elements: Light--The Sun and the Moon" (week 10)
♥8♥ – "The Elements: Fire, Wind, and Water" (week 9)
♥9♥ – *wild*
♥10♥ – "The Elements: Earth II--Castles, Mountains, Dwarves, Giants, Forests & Forest Creatures" (part I)
♥J♥ – "The Elements: Earth II--Castles, Mountains, Dwarves, Giants, Forests & Forest Creatures" (part II)
♥Q♥  – "The Elements: Earth II--Castles, Mountains, Dwarves, Giants, Forests & Forest Creatures" (part III)
♥K♥ – "The Devil and Death, Heaven and Hell"

Spades: Tales from Missouri and the Heartland by Ross Malone
♠A♠ – *wild*
♠2♠ – "One" through "Eight"
♠3♠ – "Nine" through "Sixteen"
♠4♠ – "Seventeen" through "Twenty-Four"
♠5♠ – "Twenty-Five" through "Thirty-Two"
♠6♠ – "Thirty-Three" through "Forty"
♠7♠ – "Forty-One" through "Forty-Eight"
♠8♠ – "Forty-Nine" through "Fifty-Six"
♠9♠ – "Fifty-Seven" through "Sixty-Four"
♠10♠ – "Sixty-Five" through "Seventy-Three"
♠J♠ – "Seventy-Four" through "Eighty-Two"
♠Q♠ – "Eighty-Three" through "Ninety-One"
♠K♠ – "Ninety-Two" through "One Hundred"

Diamonds: Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards edited by Larry Dark
♦A♦ –*wild*
♦2♦ – "A Nurse's Story" by Peter Baida
♦3♦ – "Merry-Go-Sorry" by Cary Holladay
♦4♦ – "Save the Reaper" by Alice Munro (week 8)
♦5♦ – "The Depressed Person" by David Foster Wallace (week 2)
♦6♦ – "Cataract" by Pam Houston (week 1)
♦7♦ – "Sea Oak" by George Saunders
♦8♦ – "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
♦9♦ – "Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree" by Gerald Reilly
♦10♦ – "Mister Brother" by Michael Cunningham
♦J♦ – "Moon" by Chaim Potok
♦Q♦ – "Burning" by Robert Schirmer
♦K♦ – "Watching Girls Play" by W.D. Wetherell (week 15)

Clubs: The Best American Short Stories 2010 edited by Richard Russo
♣A♣ – *wild*
♣2♣ – "Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched" by Steve Almond (week 12)
♣3♣ – "Into Silence" by Marlin Barton
♣4♣ – "The Cousins" by Charles Baxter
♣5♣ – "Safari" by Jennifer Egan
♣6♣ – "Someone Ought to Tell Her There's Nowhere to Go" by Danielle Evans
♣7♣ – "The Valetudinarian" by Joshua Ferris (week 4)
♣8♣ – "Delicate Edible Birds" by Lauren Groff (week 3)
♣9♣ – "Least Resistance" by Wayne Harrison (week 7)
♣10♣ – "The Hollow" by James Lasdun (week 6)
♣J♣ – "Painted Ocean, Painted Ship" by Rebecca Makkai
♣Q♣ – "My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer" by Brendan Mathews
♣K♣ – "PS" by Jill McCorkle