Selene
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 33
The Powers that Be descended on me and Seven said, “Monster Millions x-x-xx-xx-x monster ball xx. The sole winner drowned before the drawing. Body never recovered. You have three days to do a time bunk to the past and purchase a ticket and claim the money. Your annual income from the winnings will be 3 hundred thousand a year after taxes. Here is your birth certificate, state license, library card. Your ID says you are 18 as of 180 days ago. You bought the ticket as a birthday present to yourself and forgot about it.
They delivered me to Thrall, Texas. I bought gas and remembered it was my birthday. I spent two dollars for a ticket. One hundred and seventy eight days after ... I rode my Kona to the 18 bus stop on MLK, took the 18 bus to to the Metro Line connection, took the Metro to the terminal and walked my bike to the lottery headquarters. I locked my bike to a parking meter and walked in the building.
“I think I have a winner,” I said. I handed my signed ticket to the clerk. She did what they do to authenticate the ticket.
“You do. Let me get the director.”
She left the ticket on the counter. I watched it like a hawk eyed his next meal.
The director did what directors do and said, “Annuity or cash?”
“Annuity, please.”
I walked out with a cashiers check for $326,000 dollars.
I recovered my bike and rode to the terminal, and went home. That was interesting.
The boulder, and flakes, was photographed. The sand was collected, bagged and transported. The point made the cover of the Smith magazine. The British published the pictures in a collection along with my interview as discoverer. It took the efforts of both Professor Dent and Professor Waters to force the interviewer to question me ... the 16 year old ditzy girl. The reporter refused to admit that ‘a kid’ had made such a monumental step in the evolution of the Americas. Two thousand years added to the Paleocene.
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