One original sci-fi story per day for all of 2023 | Created by screenwriter Timothy Michael Cooper, illustrated using A.I.

One Wish

One Wish

As you know, everyone on earth gets one wish in life; use it wisely. Receive anything you want (except more wishes, that’d be a loophole). Some use it for money, which is understandable, but generally short-sighted. Others use it for chiseled jawlines, impressive abs, prodigious endowments. Certain folks wish to live forever, but not all of them enjoy it (without ample money or that chiseled jawline). Being the smartest person on earth is fun—until someone else wishes for the same thing later that day. Overall, most people long for just one additional wish after their first one—then they’d be happy.