'Short Story - The House Always Wins'

'The summer of my twenty-second birthday, my friends J.D., Allan, and I were unwrap to enjoy ourselves and cook mischief. My husband Sean was out-of-door from home; and my generate had the children for the night. The night was ours to permit loose, have fun, and know our adolescence. At that cartridge clip in my bearing I was on top of the world. I had just get a $12,000 discontinue for a category and a half(a) worth of bet on pay from the government. I was ready to party. My antheral comrades caused a snap at the omit causing us to flee forward the cops arrived.\nMy friend J.D., who was cognise as the gothic cowboy by our friends, was in a panic. speckle slow the wheel of my car, he decided we should deceitfulness low in Oklahoma for a few hours. In our addled and sottish state, we all agreed. He was exceedingly enkindle to reunite with his anomic family in the argona. His phony brother Allan and I were enthusiastic for a much different reason. Neither of us had ever been to a casino in the beginning and there was unmatched on the way. I had heard more fabulous and winning stories from friends and family who had been to them. Unfortunately, I would in short learn of a much darker military position to what I was told. While gambling is non physically or chemically addictive, and is considered a harmless inexpert activity by many, it is still an extremely addictive and unhealthful habit.\nAfter a brief though touching reunification between JD and his family, we make our way to the casino. hither it is! I impression to myself, the moment has in the end arrived. As I pick out my rootage tread into a casino, I take a step through eon and space. I am suddenly a child again, alter with excitement as I gain the arcade in hopes of winning a fabulous prize. My senses are filled with delight. I am positively mesmerized at the sea of machines and blink multi-colored lights that lay in front my eyes. I tolerate still fume the musky, full bodied, olfactory property of vanilla tobacco that engulfed and filled me with an versed sense of tranquility.\nA seven backside tall...'