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The Lottery Petty crime is a thing of the past since The Lottery. The city's crosswalks need now be repainted from wear of use- not that they will be. At intersections, yellow lights no longer have the connotation of a more urgent green- they have power now, thanks to the ever-present cameras. Hastings has never once had cleaner streets or parks, and all without a single public service announcement. While the world around it fell into a nightmare, the city of Nerville was made someone's personal utopia. Vernon Kell now sits in a quiet room next to a woman he knows nothing about. His fingers lace and unlace, dancing around one another in ev

                                                  A Day In the Life It was one of the last dog-days of summer, and boy was it a scorcher. I ran the back of my hand across my brow, freeing it of the sweat that had been building there. As I strolled down the path of the lightly wooded area just outside my neighborhood, my thoughts turned to the new school year looming overhead. It was amazing to th