Question: do anyone know a story that is similiar to "the lottery" by Shirley Jackson? i need a non literary source.  it needs to be kinda on the violent side with no happy ending.  it son't have to be a story.  it could be a poem of sorts

Answer: The Running Man by Stephen King (first published under the name of Richard Bachman). The main characters are picked by a lottery system to run a marathon race which lasts until there is only one runner left. Lots of violence, no happy ending. Believe a movie was made out of it.
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