“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson
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Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
  • skmn
    5·
    3 months ago

    Very chilling. One of few that really stuck with me in high school.

    • Lacanoodle@literature.cafeOPM
      2·
      3 months ago

      This is one of those stories I always forget I’ve read, funnily enough somehow just doesn’t stick (although I do like it every time)