The Winning Ticket
Language: en
My family was so poor we could barely afford to eat, yet the lottery ticket I bought on a whim won five million dollars. My brother, eyes red with rage, lunged at me, snatching the ticket, ready to tear it apart. My father, who usually doted on me, held a kitchen knife to my throat. "If you don't rip that thing up, I'll chop off your hand!" Even my bedridden mother, waiting for money to save her life, dragged her weak body up, screaming in terror, "Daughter, you can't cash it in!" To stop me, they tied me up in the basement and threw in a starving wolfdog. In the end, I was mauled to…