A stubborn gardener found a lamp in a potted plant. He cleaned it, and a genie emerged.

“You have one wish,” she said.

“Whatever I wish, you’ll make it awful. So I wish genies didn’t exist.”

The genie zapped him to ash. “As far as he knows, I granted it.”

This is the fifth in a series of stories from King Kool, who has previously contributed multiple other series.