“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson
www.newyorker.com
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.”
  • sockman
    5·
    2 months ago

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

    • Lacanoodle@literature.cafeOPM
      2·
      2 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)

  • GCanuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    As shocking and terrifying as this story is, I always great even more horror from the fact that when people first read this, they thought it was real and asked the author where this village was so they could go watch next years lottery.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    This was in my seventh grade English class. Good story. South Park spoofed it with their Britney Spears episode.