The looks I get are absolutely priceless when I tell people that I wrote a dystopian novel right before COVID-19 struck about the US getting hammered by a pandemic from China and an economic meltdown.
I just realized that I never told any of these people that the main bad guy in the novel is a control-freak governor.
I’ve always discouraged people from playing the lottery – it’s the stock market for people who are really lousy at math – but seeing how I’ve called things so far, I’m wondering how I’d do at guessing the Powerball …