Take And Draw
No one announces the lottery.
No one advertises the prize.
And no one ever explains the costs.
Evan Drake lives an ordinary life—unremarkable, quiet, and carefully planned. He has a job that pays enough, routines that keep him grounded, and a future he assumes will unfold slowly, one year at a time. Until people around him begin to die without reason.
Healthy people collapse in kitchens. Friends disappear overnight. Strangers lose decades of their lives in an instant. There are no patterns, no warnings—only the unbearable feeling that something invisible is taking time away… and giving it to someone else.
When Evan is approached by a Broker, he is not offered money, power, or survival. He is offered knowledge. A chance to see what others cannot. A contract that appears on his skin the moment he agrees—binding him to a system that has existed longer than memory.
The Draw.
A cycle where time is transferred, not created.
A system that chooses one recipient and grants them years of life—taken evenly from others.
A game where no participant is allowed to speak its name.
At first, Evan is only an observer. Then a witness.
And finally, a Curator.
As a Curator, he can see the remaining lifespan of every human being, a number no one else is meant to know. But the rules are absolute: he cannot reveal the system, cannot reveal himself, and cannot interfere. Every violation is paid for in death.
With each cycle, Evan watches people lose time they never agreed to give. He watches winners live longer without knowing why. He watches families mourn deaths with no medical explanation. And slowly, he begins to understand the cruel truth of the system:
Luck does not save you.
Silence keeps it alive.
And every choice, whether made or not
still costs time.
Take And Draw is a dark, philosophical thriller about fate, consequence, and the quiet horror of a world where life can be taken without warning, and where the most dangerous role is not being a participant, but a witness who must never speak.
