Random Stuff That Doesn't Fit Elsewhere....

The Wishing Candle

The magic wishing candle loomed in front of me. What should I wish for? I made up my minds after several minutes of thinking. "I wish that there would be no more school!" I declared, promptly blowing out the candle. When I blew it out it lit back up, and I was frightened. So I tried to blow it out again and it still didn't work. At this point I was terrified. My wish wasn't going to come true. The only thing I wanted, and it wasn't going to happen. I blew and blew on the candle. Nothing at all.

I heard a voice behind me.

"They say insanity is doing something over and over, trying for different results. Perhaps you are insane?"

I whipped around, expecting some form of genie like the books always describe.

"You know, sometimes what you're looking for is right in front of you."

I turned back to the candle. Was it... speaking?

The candle spun around and smiled at me with a waxy face. Apparently no one told me how the wishing candle worked. He laughed a sinister laugh and explained, "You have one week in which your wish would be granted, but after that, time would reset to be how it was before." I knew I had to make the most of my week without school! I ran home to share the news with my best friend and next door neighbor, Sam, but he wasn't there! Apparently, since there was no school anymore, he had to get a job. What could I do with my time off? I couldn't find my parents anywhere and everything in town looked different.

Signs suddenly became hard to understand. People began talking all funny. Soon I couldn't even understand them! I ran back home, but there was no home there! Instead a farm had fell from the sky and replaced my home!

"Mom! Dad! Hello?" I called inside the big red barn.

Nothing. Silence. Well maybe I should just go get ice cream. Might as well enjoy my week off... I guess Mom and Dad couldn't tell me what to do anymore. I enjoyed myself for a couple days, but I got bored and lonely.

"I need to find that wishing candle again," I thought to myself.

Eventually I found it. "Change things back to the way they were!" I demanded.

"Ah, but a wish once wished can never be un-wished. You must endure your suffering until the end of the week." Then it vanished.

"NO!!!!" I screamed.

I would never be the same again.

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So, this story, and the next few to come, weren't written just by me. Recently, my youth group had a story writing night. Each person had their own prompt and would get two minutes to write. Then we passed the story on and the next person had to continue it without knowing the prompt. So, some of the stories ended up going off track. For instance, one was supposed to be mixing two fairy tales together, and ended up begin a dance battle.

Well, I hope that you guys enjoy. This is one of the ones that makes more sense. I swear, there are funnier ones!

~Ace Out!