I stare at the genie.
"What?" I say.
"I will grant you two wishes. Riches, health, fame, wisdom, knowledge, power, contentment, beauty, whatever you want."
It's too... I can't- How could I... I'll get it wrong!
"I wish I will never regret my wishes."
"Granted. And your second?"
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The reader turned the page. The characters of the finished story gathered for a debrief.
"That was new," the Sage said.
"Nobody pictured us like that before," said the Masked Lady.
"I haven't felt that alive in ages," said the Colonel. "To be seen with new eyes..."
"A new life."
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"I struggle to understand how humans can communicate," the alien said.
"Yet you phrased that perfectly."
"Your words have no intrinsic meaning?"
"Correct. It's all by consensus."
"So if enough people are 'wrong', they become right?"
"For better or worse, that's human history."
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I was all ready when the genie offered me three wishes. “A faster-than light spaceship, a very sensitive directional radio antenna, and a video recorder.”

Now I’m 54 light years from home, I’ve got my antenna pointed at Earth, and my finger poised over the Record button.

And it just occurs to me that I could have asked the genie for a copy of the lost Doctor Who episodes, and I’d still have two wishes left.

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