
Wild Cards
Two street hustlers seek payback from a vicious mobster one explosive night in Las Vegas.

Two street hustlers seek payback from a vicious mobster one explosive night in Las Vegas.
Two street hustlers seek payback from a vicious mobster one explosive night in Las Vegas.
Lucky and Shannon have loved one another since they were teenage runaways, dipping their fingers in countless small time scams. To take on Steve, a connected nightclub owner, they need to play the long con, when so many things can go wrong. They have to adapt and improvise, using every trick learned in a career of deception: sleights of hand, secret confederates, diversion, distraction, and seduction.
Shannon lures Steve to Las Vegas, where Lucky challenges Steve to a unique duel: a heads-up one on one poker game.
But the game is fixed, and it is mob money on the table, so someone is going to have to pay the ultimate price.
Stuart Stromin is an award-winning South African-American writer and filmmaker, living in Los Angeles. He was educated at Rhodes University, South Africa, the Alliance Francaise de Paris, and UCLA. His work has been published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Plainsongs, Nzuri, Macabre Ladies, The Chaffin Journal, Garfield Lake Review, Jalada Africa, Temptation Press, Sheila-na-gig online, Blood Puddles, etc. His most recent book is subspace (EMP Press).