The lottery ticket - Mrs. Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus Week 37
Saturday Centus - Hey! Wake up! It's another Shake-up! Welcome to week thirty-seven of Saturday Centus. To read Mrs. Jenny's instructions, please scroll down past my SC-text! Here is my text: ------ After the avalanche, we spotted something red in the snow. Seeing that it was held in a hand, we dug him out quickly. The lottery ticket saved him. * ------ Word count by hand count:25 * Some background information: I'm not being very original today. This short-short fictional 25+3-word-text is based upon a true story, that a friend told me. It happened in Sweden in the 1930's or 40's. A man who had been grouse-shooting in the mountains, got buried under the snow during a storm or snowslide. He was buried so deeply that he could not move enough to get himself up out of the snow. Finding a red movie ticket-stub in his pocket he reached with his hand as far as he could in the direction that he believed to be up to the surface, before blacking out. He was found aliv...