text: 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 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.