Glass-and-Sand

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An odd question

Bloganuary writing prompt
What would you do if you won the lottery?

“You don’t leave things to chance”, she said, “besides, you don’t, we don’t, need more than we have already.”

“It’s worse than that,” he replied sternly, “this is a disaster I would not want us to suffer. What happens next is well known: harassment from all sides, unhealthy attention, blackmail, breakup of families, parasites onslaught, there is no survivor… What we would do is very simple: give it all to orphanages.”

Inspired also by Fandango’s One Word Challenge of January 28.

Picture: Foundlings and Orphans in 18th-Century England


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