“Poems,” published in 1898 by the Cincinnati Game Co., offered a deck featuring 52 poems. They were divided, like a standard deck, into four suits: America, Ireland, England, and Scotland. The American suit included Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, and Field, as well as “The American Flag” by William Rodman Drake. Ireland was represented by Thomas Moore, […]

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“Life,” published in 1955 by Charles M. Foust of Yates Center, Kansas, is not to be confused with the venerable board game from Milton Bradley. Mr. Foust’s “Life” consists of 98 cards, divided into 14 Repent cards, 5 Confess, 5 Believe, 5 Baptised, 20 Love, 20 Jesus, 30 Fellowship, 5 Heaven, 4 Sin, and 10 […]

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The 19th issue of Black Scat Review is now available! This issue’s theme is “ecstasy.” I contributed “Two and One” (a story about a love triangle, told entirely in three-letter words), “Up to the Summit” (in which Owen’s daily mountain climbing is interrupted by his mother’s sudden wedding), and “C11H13NO2” (an alliterative consideration of a […]

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