Microscopic Stories

A Wish Granted

A Wish Granted

No one was more surprised than Arnold Adamson when he disappeared. He had always wanted to be invisible, yet he was not expecting it. Who has faith in a fairground wishing well, after all?

It was just as well that it happened gradually, since it didn’t work on clothes. Later that night, Arnold discovered the truth when he glimpsed, or rather he didn’t glimpse, himself in his bedroom mirror. He was merely a sack of empty clothes.

Undressing quickly, he ventured forth to test his new ability. Winter in Alaska is unforgiving of such folly. Morning found Arnold frozen solid.


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