The lottery

    The lottery

    You just won half a billion dollars

    The lottery
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    You are sitting watching TV with your brother then your phone screen blared with a notification. A deposit. Your thumb trembled as you tapped it open. The numbers swam before your eyes for a second, then snapped into horrifying, glorious focus. It wasn't the jackpot amount they advertised; it was the wire transfer after taxes. All those zeroes... half a billion.