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    Wish World
    Wish World
    Wish World
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    Wish World

    By "Tom" "Lichtenberg"

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    We all have dreams. We pray, we hope, we buy lottery tickets and wish on falling stars. We know this isn't the most practical way to get things done, but our hearts tell us a different story. We want to believe. But suppose the world really did work like this, a world where everyone was guaranteed to have at least one of their wishes granted in their lifetime, and when it happened, their life would instantly change, but would it be for better or for worse?

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher"Tom" "Lichtenberg"
    Release dateJan 11, 2014
    ISBN9781310111891
    Wish World
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    "Tom" "Lichtenberg"

    Author of curiously engaging novellas of the science-fiction-y, post-modern-y, absurdist variety

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      Wish World - "Tom" "Lichtenberg"

      Wish World

      a short story by Tom Lichtenberg

      copyright 2014 by Tom Lichtenberg

      Smashwords Edition copyright 2014 by Tom Lichtenberg

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only.

      I knew everything about him, Marcus said, but I didn't know that.

      He paused for a moment, but one that soon turned into an awkward silence Marcus was seated at the head of a long gray Formica-topped table in the free morning breakfast nook of the Coastside Residence Suites. Gathered around him were the eleven official members of the Anti-Wish Brigade, who were in the midst of their fourteenth annual convention. Before Marcus had entered the room only minutes earlier, the membership was busy microwaving popcorn and gulping coffee while milling about waiting for August March to take control of the situation. They weren't much of a group, to tell the truth, hardly worth gathering once let alone annually, but each year on the second Saturday in January they duly made our way to that drab half-deserted motel to compare notes and swap stories. Most of them were simply fed up with the phenomenon known as The Sparkles, the mysterious but commonplace way that people's deepest wishes were arbitrarily granted to them willy-nilly by some unknown universal agency. Some of the members of the Brigade had a suspicion that life wasn't meant to be lived this way, yet this is how it was. Everyone in the whole world was unconditionally guaranteed to have one of their most precious wishes granted to them at least once in their lifetime. Of course, you could never know which wish it would be, or when or where this granting might occur,

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