A Game of Chance | A 100 Word Story

#701 | X Wheel of Fortune - The Gold Bug | Edgar Allan Poe Tarot

“Place your bets.” I could hear the roulette wheel spinning. The ball bouncing. The crowd gasping!

The spin slows. There are less bounces…

Black. 5.

“Black Five!” A woman shouts and kisses a stranger next to her. I shake my head. I’m so board with the roulette wheel. There’s no real skill involved.

And yet…there’s something about the sound of the ball spinning counter-clockwise to the wheel.

Red. 22.

That same woman kisses that stranger. I walk over to the table. I won’t let it trick others the way it tricked me.

Red. 16.

I don’t need your money!

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