For every story about somebody who beat impossible odds, there is one about somebody who beat them and then lost the ticket. These are, frankly, better stories, and they have the advantage of being useful.
Almost every entry here turns on a small thing: an unsigned ticket, an unread deadline, a syndicate with nothing written down, a line changed at the last second. None of them were bad luck in the way they look.
10 entries, one per page.