“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.”
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 days ago

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