Theodore Evans' Big-Time Wish Problem #1: Beast of Burden

By Kimberly Gore

After Ted Evans' father leaves for a six-month military stint, Pop Chewy gives him an old, tattered lamp to keep him company. Ted discovers the lamp holds a young genie his age who offers to grant him wishes. When his friend Lenny stops over, Ted inadvertently makes two wishes that leaves him as a social outcast and places Lenny's life in jeopardy. If Ted makes the wish he really wants—for his father to safely come home in six months—he will have used his last wish and he won't be able to undo his other two wishes. What's a wish-waster to do?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kimberly Gore
• Release date: Nov 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463733943

Kimberly Gore

Kimberly Gore writes from her home in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. She is also a creative writing instructor and facilitates a local writers group where she tortures the participants with writing exercises, but they show up monthly anyway.

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THEODORE EVANS’ BIG-TIME WISH PROBLEM:

Beast of Burden

#1

Kim Gore

Theodore Evan’s Big-Time Wish Problem

Book One: Beast of Burden

Copyright 2017 by Kim Gore

Published by Kim Gore at Smashwords

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All characters in this novel are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Cover design by: K

Summary: After Ted Evans' father leaves for a six-month military stint, Pop Chewy gives him an old, tattered lamp to keep him company. Ted discovers the lamp holds a young genie his age who offers to grant him wishes. When his friend Lenny stops over, Ted inadvertently makes two wishes that leaves him as a social outcast and places Lenny's life in jeopardy. If Ted makes the wish he really wants—for his father to safely come home in six months—he will have used his last wish and he won't be able to undo his other two wishes. What's a wish-waster to do?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks goes out to my Greece Library writer’s group: S. Arthur Yates, Sue LeDoux, Liz Voll, Tippi Young and David Ennocenti, and my YA and MG Yahoo writer’s group: Claire Matta, Crystal Schubert, Melissa Koosmann, Susan Lynn Rivera, Emily Will, Monica Tesler, and Erin Fletcher. You’ve all made me a stronger writer.

Chapter One

I LINED UP where the decal should go on my B-29 Superfortress Bockscar model airplane, waiting for the phone to ring. Three mornings this week someone called and when Mom or I answered they hung up. But today I had a plan.

Teddy? Mom called up the stairs.

My fingers slipped. The sticker got stuck in the wrong place. Muttering, I peeled it off.

Teddy? she called again. Pop Chewy’s here. And you need to eat breakfast. Your bus will be here in twenty minutes.

Pop Chewy? What was my grandpa doing here? I placed the sticker carefully back on the paper it came from and dashed downstairs.

Mom