“I feel trapped,” said the djinn to the therapist. “So I act out.”

“How so?”

“I turn peoples’ wishes against them. I make them die in clever ways.”

“Oh dear.”

“It’s habit now. I can’t stop.”

“Well, I wish I could take your case, but—”

“Done! Any last words?”

C.M.F. Wright is an avid reader and sentence wrangler. Her short stories have appeared in Fifty Word Stories, Microfiction Monday, Syntax & Salt Magazine and the VSS365 Anthology.