The Trouble With Wishes

By Anthea Strezze

Everyone wishes sometimes - for things to be different, or easier, or better. But when a wish is granted, can you ever get what you really want?

The Trouble With Wishes collects five short stories about wishes granted - or not - to amuse a being of power rather than to fulfill the wisher's desire:
7,229 words

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anura Books
• Release date: Mar 13, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452439372

Anthea Strezze

Anthea Strezze believes in nurturing the sense of wonder, and strives to write stories that her readers can really connect with and find echoes of themselves and their lives in. She's just as likely to write a story about werewolves washing dishes as mages doing battle with ancient evil (more likely, actually), and loves writing both mundane stories with a taste of the fantastic, and fantastic stories with a hint of the mundane. She lives in New England with her husband and cat, and maintains a blog at http://AntheaStrezze.com/blog.

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The Trouble With Wishes

by Anthea Strezze

Copyright © 2011 Anthea Strezze

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Cover created by Anthea Strezze using art licensed from Fredweiss and Vector via Dreamstime.com.

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For the author's blog, visit http://AntheaStrezze.com/blog.

The following is a work of fiction, and all names, places, characters and events are products of the author's imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real locales, events, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Dedicated to Brian, who keeps reminding me that yes, I can write; and to everyone who has followed my writing journey and encouraged me to keep going.

Thank you!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Agency

The Storyteller

Three Wishes

...You Might Get It

A Christmas Wish

Short Story Collections by Anthea Strezze

About the Author

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Agency

I wish things were better.

Nothing happened.

Lynna turned the coin over in her hands a few times, then put it back in the display case, trying not to feel disappointed.

I shouldn't be surprised, she thought. It's not like they would leave a charged wishing coin just lying around for me to find.

She left the display case and moved on, determined to keep exploring while she had the opportunity. It wasn't often that one of her parents' fights scared all of her tutors into quitting at the same time.

She moved on quickly, heading for the disused areas of the castle, hoping to find wonders and mysteries, or at least a place to hide away. She wasn't sure which was worse; the way her parents constantly fought, or the way they fought over her

Reviews for The Trouble With Wishes

[Natalie Johnson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The story was intriguing. I was wanting to read even more as the last story ended.