One wish and a couple to ponder.

So… three wishes eh? Three ponders rather but only one to choose, the rest discarded…

I suppose, immortality would be one wish but that’s got too many downsides. It’d get bloody boring very quickly. Especially when the last life on the planet had ended and I was all alone for the rest of eternity. Add to that seeing all your friends wither and die…

So no….

How about a superpower? Trouble with that is which one? There’s too many to choose from and once I’d made the wish I might wish I’d chosen a different one…

Let’s get clever instead.

I’d write quite a few things on a piece of paper. No, no infinite wishes, just that everything that I had written on that sheet during the time period it took to write it would come true.

What would be on that sheet?

Simply this…

I find myself in a white space with access to every piece of fiction past, present and future ever put down or to be put down on a medium which allows others to understand it.

I’m granted the ability to read and comprehend as if I’m fluent, every single language in the universe because the fiction available isn’t just from the planet earth, it’s from everywhere, everywhen.

I can read anything and choose any fictional character. I would then become that character in the world of the book and live out its life from birth to death.

If there is no death, as in, the character is eternal, a time limit must be specified before the transfer and when the death of the character is reached or the time limit expires, I return to the white space to choose my next. For all eternity.

If the book doesn’t detail every period of the character’s life, that life follows the logical and character direction.

If the character is undefined, blank or badly written, aspects of my own character fill the gaps. Picking a background character for example, where nothing is known about him other than he stood and watched a scene, I would be me in that world only bound by one constraint, to be at that scene to see it, otherwise free to do as I pleased as long as it didn’t interfere with the plot of the book.