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To: wimpycat
As far as short stories go, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery still creeps me out

Seconded. The style of this story presages the sort of ironic twist ending favored by Ray Bradbury and Rod Serling.

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64 posted on 01/30/2010 5:04:39 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Calling illegal aliens "undocumented workers" is like calling drug dealers "unlicensed pharmacists")
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To: Celtic Conservative; wimpycat

That story has actually been criticized by conservatives for being a hit piece on a small town.


67 posted on 01/30/2010 7:36:07 AM PST by Borges
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