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Submitted to Contest #260
1,500 words The Winning NumbersA Short Story 33, 17, 45. I’ll always remember playing my numbers for the first time on my nineteenth birthday; waiting fifteen minutes in line with anticipation coursing through my veins; the rush of sliding my freshly engraved lottery card across the kiosk counter; feeling special when the clerk wished me a happy birthday before scanning my digits. “Please play again.” Those words at that moment had stung like a slap to the face. The machine had delivered them in an animatronic tone devoid of any sym...
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