Agent Nguyen was fuming. “You what?”

“Ayyy. It ain’t my fault I’m a lucky little ducky?”

Nguyen’s face reddened. “Yeah, dumbass, it is your fault. It’s only your fault, you dumb sonofabitch.”

“Yo, hey now… You know, there was a time when someone, Fed or not, mouthed off to—“

“Save it, grandpa. You ain’t gonna do anything besides make my life harder.”

Tony Mangenonzo—aka Tony the Shark aka Ton...

"So how did you get all this money again?" his coworker asked him.

"My - uh - my great aunt's nephew died and left me his fortune. Yeah. And now I'm trying to pay off my debt and such." He stammered back. Little did his coworker know that his story was completely false. He had won the secret lottery and wasn't allowed to tell anyone about his winning.

"Okay... but aren't you gonna get a limo a...

"It's real alright. I won" Rereading every number in order and I can't believe it's real. All we've needed was money just a little would do a lot of good for us. "Maybe with the money, we'd have food or clothes and even a notebook for school." Poor is close but the word your looking for is unfortunate. Before now there was no hope in finding wealth. I'm only 12, not old enough for a job but my you...

To win

By lucky choices

Earning more than enough

Paying off debts of life

Saving for rainy days

Spoiling loved ones

With earnings...

The bone-chilling downpour of rain felt heavier than usual tonight. Perhaps it only felt this way due to the over-saturation of my antiquated coat - that being said it’d been a long, stormy day. My treacherous, penultimate journey wasn’t something I pursued joyfully, however it was whole-heartedly the right thing to do.

I was cursed. Since my juvenile years luck was always something that I percei...

I stared at the three gold stars on the ticket, jaw dropping as I realised…

I’ve won the lottery? I HAVE WON THE LOTTERY?!?!

The man behind the counter notices my exited dancing and squealing, and smiles.

Then his face drops and he notices the black laminated paper in my hand.

I am surprised as he pushes me out of sight and whispers, “Don’t tell anyone! Oh no! This is bad!”

My joy dissipates.

...

I always wanted to help people, to change the world. Winning the lottery allowed me to do just that. The only catch was that I couldn't tell anyone. Not a single soul could know I'd won. So I created a pen name, a dummy email account, and a dummy bank account. Nothing could be traced back to me.

I achieved the quiet, solitary life that I wanted but I still had millions left over. I've spent the l...

When I cashed in the winning ticket I knew exactly what I was going to do. First of all, I had to keep my newfound riches a secret. That meant no paper trail or banks.

So I tried Bitcoin- a modest investment. I financed some worthy causes like water treatment in Africa,

Animal rescues, and struggling small businesses’ ‘legal fees. But I still had quite a bit of cash, which I kept in a lockbox.

I ...

I unfolded the cheque for about the hundredth time today, still staring in shock at the numbers looking up at me. The amount of money written on the paper was far more than I could ever imagine winning, let alone earning in my entire lifetime no matter how many jobs I took up. If it weren’t for the bank seal in the corner and my name in elegant scrawl beside the words ‘to the order to:’, I might’v...

“I don’t know what you mean? I’m not spending ‘extravagantly’ and besides, why do you think I owe you any explanation even if I was?”

I turned my back on Laurie after my feigned outburst of indignation. She had seen me in the Gucci store in the mall and, surprised, had asked if I had really spent so much on a purse. Fact was, I had come into money. A whole, big, glorious bunch of money and I ...