My Favorite Short Story

One short story I remember during middle school was The Lottery. It was a story about a perfectly normal neighborhood except for one thing. Each year they had a lottery. I know what you are thinking, what is wrong with a lottery? Well, this lottery was not an ordinary one. The winner of this lottery did not get money, but got stones thrown at them until they died. This story attached to me for a couple of years. It was really interesting. Questions like why this strange town would hold such a cruel lottery still stick in my mind. Overall, I felt this was a very interesting short story, unlike any other I had read.