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THE LOTTERY & THE POSTMASTER Every year on June 27 in this small little village, a ritual is held to find out the winner of the lottery. Mr. Graves is the village postmaster, he is the one who conducts, and manages the entire lottery ceremony. Mr. Graves is a middle aged man in his early forties, never married, living in an old cottage barn and is totally obsessed with being the village postmaster. Mr. Graves feels like he and he alone is the boss of the 300 villagers inside the village. THE DAY BEFORE THE LOTTERY / JUNE 26 Mr. Grav...
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The Last Hand Dealt A Story by Michael Anthony Neil Jr. Part One: The Setup The Cabrini-Green towers didn't kill everybody. Some people it just marked. Darius "Smooth" Washington had been marked since the night his mother pressed a crisp fiftydollar bill into his nine-year-old hand and told him to go buy groceries — and he came back three hours later with nothing but a story about how a dice game looked more promising. She whipped him until her arm got tired. But something in his eyes had already changed. The hunger was there. Not the kin...
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