A Chance to Say Good-bye

By Gustavo Zaragosa

this is an epic-short-story about the great lotto galaxia, the greatest lottery in the galactic empire. against all hope, fal tralingo wins and can finally have his hearts deepest desire. he does not want fame or wealth or power like every other winner in the past, he wants something that no one can give him.
lotto galaxia's slogan is that the winner can have "anything you want" and "lotto always delivers" both phrases that had become part of the galactic vocabulary, and these powerful words have sold uncountable gazillions of tickets.
but fal wants something different and the lotto board of directors are stumped when fal finally reveals his wish but seeing that if they don't "deliver", that would stop all that easy money, they rack their brains and neural networks to come up with a way to get out of their situation. finally a strange inter-dimensional creature called a stnyx suggests a solution to give fal what he wants and all he wants is a chance…

• Language: English
• Publisher: gustavo zaragosa
• Release date: Jul 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476258775

Gustavo Zaragosa

I was born in South Korea 54 years ago, five years after the war ended. I am of mixed heritage. I grew up in many countries and went to many schools. I have lived in most of the worlds I write about in my first novel, Mad Restaurant and Inter-reality Stories. I now live in the Netherlands. I play bass and guitar, make fine jewelry, carve wood, draw and paint, perform with puppets, do street theater, juggle and write poetry, plays, non-fiction and fiction. I am 25% through my second novel Maya Babe. (Update 2 July, 2020) since I published this story, I have stopped working on Maya Babe and am 155,000 words into my first revision of my novel, The Three Winters. I hope to publish it in analog form and actually charge people money for it.

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A Chance to Say Goodbye

Gustavo Zaragosa

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Chapter 1

The galaxy was now an empire. Hundreds of thousands of planets and uncountable trillions of species were joined under the banner of the Galactic Federation. It was a time of great and productive peace. All of the Galactic citizens were happy, and lived together and separately in a gigantic species-hood of life. What a great time to be alive!

Even greater than the peace of the galaxy that the federation had created, was the great lottery, Lotto Galaxia. It was indeed the greatest lottery in the known universe. Well, that’s how it was billed anyway.

This simple game kept the empire together more than anything else. It gave the great variety of life in the empire a common bond, for the desire to win and to be a winner was shared by creature’s great and small. The Lotto took thousands of races and alien cultures and joined them into a coherent whole, into an empire.

The Lotto Galaxia Corporation had been running the lottery for over 19,000 years. As the Empire spread so did Lotto Galaxia, selling tickets to new alien races usually hours after the planet was claimed for the emperor. Once the lottery was explained to the local inhabitants, a planet