Week 13 Story: Three Wasted Wishes

Fairy by Peter

There once lived a man who lived in New York. He was on a business trip for his job. This was nothing out of the ordinary for the man. But this trip will end up being the most interesting he will ever have. It starts out with him going about his normal business when he takes these trips for his company. He starts to head home after business has ben conducted and was on a crowded subway platform. He is waiting for the train in subway so that he may make his way to the airport. The train stated to arrive on the platform but instead of slowing down it passes at full speed and the lights start to flicker. As the train passed, in front of him appears a fairy. Nobody else was around. The fairy spoke and told the man he had been chosen for the chance to have three wishes and was told to use them wisely. Then the lights flickered, and the fairy disappeared, and the man was in a crowded subway platform again.

                He made his way home after this event confused and shrugging it off as if had never happened. He arrived back at his home in New York. He came home to his roommate watching tv next to a fire place and sat down. He was watching a show that was showing the most expensive pizza in New York. The pizza was two thousand dollars and had gold flakes on it. The man wished he could try the pizza. Then suddenly, a pizza came down the chimney. The roommate and man open the box to find the pizza they saw on TV and both wondered how then the man remembered what happened on the subway.

                He explained the whole situation to his friend. He said that it really had happened, but his friend refused to believe him. He also ridiculed him for coming up with the story. He asked his friend to stop ridiculing him, but he wouldn’t. he then wished that his friend would just shut up. Suddenly, his friend couldn’t speak. He told his friend that he gets this for ridiculing him.

The friend went to the doctor the next day to see if they could so anything. The doctors were completely stumped. They sent the roommate home with no success. So finally, the roommate went to the man and asked if he would use his third wish to give him his voice back. He wrote on a piece of paper he would believe his story if it came back. So the man wished for his voice to come back and it did. After this the friend believed what had happened. But they both realized through their squabbling that they had wasted three wishes on things that were almost pointless. They learned to never argue over something so obscure but serious at the same time again.

Authors notes: The original story was “the Three Wishes”. In this story a man was a lumber collector who chopped trees and before he chopped down a tree a fairy appears before him and told him he had three wishes. He went home confused and dazed not believing it. Then while at home he wished for black pudding while his wife cooks and it falls out of a fire place. Then the man tries to explain it to his wife and she doesn’t believe him. He wishes his nose to smell the black pudding but they cannot get his nose off of it so he wishes his nose free. This is what I based my story off.

Bibliography: Three Wishes By Jacob Joseph