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     I wished for more wishes.  "And you shall have more wishes," he responded matter-of-factly.
     I wished for a large house.  The ground beneath my mobile home quivered and an almighty blast of architecture shot its splintered foundation to the sky like a domestic firework.
     My subsequent wish ignited and emerged from its implied garage, with the pretzeled carcass of my mountain bike fluttering behind it like a discarded cape.  Between a nirvanic glare at my new motorized Pegasus of an automobile, and the giddy proclamation of my next wish, an idea hit.
     "Is there any way you could roll back time and restore the dead for a while?" I asked.
     "It would be an awful chore having to rewire all those inputs of history," he sighed, "but for you I guess I can swing it."
     "I want my grandparents back."
     "I'm afraid I can't do that."
     "You just told me you could," I muttered, hoping to not get on his bad side and risk having my own recent history reset.
     "I can," he responded matter-of-factly, "but in your haste to cash in your plethora of wishes, you neglected to specify how many more you wanted.
     "And that was your first wish."

Author's Note

Be careful what you wish for, and when you wish for it.

Reviews

[TLK]

"...an almighty blast of architecture shot its splintered foundation to the sky like a domestic firework." Excellent.

"It would be an awful chore having to rewire all those inputs of history," he sighed, "but for you I guess I can swing it." This is an excellent rewriting of the possibilities and attitudes of a genie.

I feel that linguistic logic dictates that he should have received at least two "more wishes". Yeah?

[kublakhan27]

Thank you :) I think the reply to the question was a literal one. Traditional storytelling has always said that a genie grants three wishes, but because the wisher didn't specify how many more wishes he wanted, the genie was referring to the final two when he answered, and did not grant any more than those two. A sneaky little trick by the wish-granter, in other words, as a means of not having to do all that "rewiring" I also didn't explicitly refer to the wish-granter as a "genie" cuz I wanted to leave open the possibility of it being a darker/more sinister entity :P

[Tsukin Archangel]

ooo creeepy ending i liked it~ Good job :3

[kublakhan27]

Thanks, it was kind of an experimental piece so I'm glad you like it :)

[Tsukin Archangel]

I love this sort of thing paradox and all that good stuff dreams within dreams within reality within convoluted ideas great job I'm so rambling lol

[kublakhan27]

Haha that's okay, you ramble very eloquently, I just ramble :P

[Tsukin Archangel]

lol i ramble in philosophy what?

[kublakhan27]

Well that's better than I could've explained it...actually I didn't even know how to explain it at all so I give you the edge on that principle :P

[Tsukin Archangel]

lol ok