Showing results for "Poker" in Short Stories

In Preeti Shenoy’s exciting new short story, a young girl, fresh off a break-up, repeatedly finds playing cards turning up on her path. At first she is dismissive, but they keep reappearing. Do the cards mean something? What are they trying to tell her? Will she find new love?

A motley crew, banished from a Western town, find strength, and weakness, in each other.

Bret Harte paints a timeless portrait of undesirables who are forced to leave a self-righteous town, and who, in the face of oncoming winter and in the company of a pair of innocents, learn to become bigger than themselves.

Poker Flat is cleaning house. John Oakhurst is allowed to leave of his own accord along with a few others who didn’t quite match society’s ideals. Maybe they got off good. Others had been hung from nearby sycamore trees. Who was good? Who was bad? Who was innocent? Questions to ponder as you listen to this classic short story narrated by Glenn Hascall.