Showing results for "The Ticket" in Short Stories

Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a little with Loretta Thistlebottom, could it? In another story, the country cabin where Mike spent so many idyllic summers with his grandmother ought to be the perfect place for his wife, Laurie, to recover from the nightmares of her childhood. But now that Mike and Laurie have arrived, what could be causing such an ominous feeling to come over both of them?

"Tickets Please" returns Lawrence to his native Nottingham during the First World War. The social revolution of women doing jobs previously done by men also begins to change the relationship between the sexes, and the women in the story are aggressive and wanting their rights. But are they happier for conquering the flighty male in the story, or is the domination of man by woman one step too far, only generating hate and unhappiness?

कधीतरी मोठे बक्षिस लागेल, या आशेनं लोक लॉटरीचे तिकीट काढत असतात. मग १००-२०० रूपयांची प्राप्ती झाली तरी आनंद होत असतो. काहीवेळा जास्त पैसा हातात आला तरी प्रश्न निर्माण होतात. भांडणं सुरू होतात. इथेच बघा ना! बरंच मोठं बक्षिस मिळण्याची शक्यता निर्माण होताच त्यांचे भावनाविश्व बदलतं आणि पुढं काय होतं?