Afraid of lonely old age, I bought a lottery ticket. It came up.Now have many friends and a young, male companion. Children furious. Good.
• Mavis Cheek was one of the judges of this year's McKitterick prize for first novels by authors over 40.
Twitter fiction: Mavis Cheek
The award-winning novelist takes up our Twitter-based challenge to come up with a story in 140 characters or fewer