Cards on the Table | A 100 Word Story

#645 | A Hercule Poirot Story by Agatha Christie

Today on Erica Drayton Writes, the Prompt is cards!
Write a 100 word story.
And tag me if you take up the challenge.

Four guns rest on the table beside playing cards. Some face up. Some face down. The players stare at each other. None of them willing to so much as blink.

On the surface a rather unimportant hand of poker were it not for the lack of chips anywhere on the table. This was not a game for money. That was child’s play. This is a game worth more than anything money can buy. A chance at immortality.

Only one walks away with their life. The others are left to die by their own hand.

Here comes the River! BANG! BANG!

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