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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2025
Submitted to Contest #316
My mother has cancer and I have a habit of pressing buttons that keep pushing back my retirement age. If I play at least five lines I have a chance of winning the grand jackpot of $67,956.65. I don't think that's a lot of money. I used to have more, before. Before my mother’s diagnosis, before the mass layoffs, before I had to accept some mid level management position at an insurance company I didn't know existed. I suppose I'm lucky that way, that I'm not in the red. That I've lost so much and yet still have more to go. Maybe I'd stop if I ...
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