Oct 6, 2022
3 min read
FICTION
The Lottery Ticket: A Short Story
Part one of two
Polly put the two Bingo scratch cards on the table. She always felt a little guilty — her dad’s words burrowing their way uninvited into her consciousness: “The lottery is just a tax on the stupid.”
The £6 she and Paul spent each week in the hope of winning the £300,000 jackpot should be going into their meagre…
