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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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14 Jan 2026
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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07 Jan 2026
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The revelation strikes Rebecca when she arrives at work on 21 December, the shortest day of the year. She hangs up her coat and sets down her bag and plugs in her laptop and the daily awareness that Ted won’t be here to bring her biscuits sets in, and today of all days she’s hit hard by the realization that she’s been stuck waiting for him to come back.
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28 Dec 2025
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“I’m not doing porn. Did Paul Thomas Anderson do porn? No.”
“He did Boogie Nights,” says Lottie. Nat snaps her fingers.
“Exactly, Van. He did Boogie Nights.”
“And this movie you’re making is going to be comparable in quality to Boogie Nights?” When Lottie and Natalie say nothing, Van sucks her teeth, nods, and keeps stocking. “That’s what I thought.”
Northampton, Massachusetts, October 1999. Down on their luck Smith College seniors and best friends Nat and Lottie concoct an unorthodox plan to pay their rent, one that is sure to have no reverberating effects on their relationship.
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14 Dec 2025
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“Oh, fine.” Natalie replied. “A little warm for fur, isn’t it?”
“It’s faux. Don’t get any ideas about red paint.”
“Hm. Okay.” Natalie nodded, then sucked in a breath. “So, you’re a lesbian, though?”
Lottie straightened and shut the fridge door, then turned back to Natalie. She had a bottle of water in her hand. “Don’t be reductive, Nat, I could be bisexual.”
“…are you bisexual?”
Lottie looked at her like she was stupid. “No, I’m a lesbian.”
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Or,A year after moving in with Lottie, Natalie makes a discovery about her roommate that sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic proportions.
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14 Nov 2025