This protagonist's signifier is The Fool. His key phrase is "heartless etiquette." His lucky numbers—well, he doesn't have any, really. He ran out of luck long before arriving in this tiny, horrifying country, and probably before he took a job at the company in the first place.
There are many stories about the stranger who gets into trouble through his or her ignorance regarding the strange land. Now there's one more. This one is set in the same fictional world as a previous Friday Fictionette, the one for September 2, 2016: "By Moonlight, a Dream of Vengeance." But it's a different border being crossed this time.
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The Only Winning Move... (excerpt)
Short StoryHe ran out of luck a long time before he got here.
