Three Wishes

One of the things I like about this might also be a fault: we're thrown straight into the action, which hits the ground running. This makes for very spare writing which cuts away all excess fat. However, the pay-off might be more effective still if we cared for the protagonist one way or another, i.e. we might see him before the meeting with the genie in a piece of action which establishes clearly whether he's a sympathetic character or not. Either way, the ultimate 'punishment' whould hit home harder. Having said that, I like the situations very much, and each is well recounted. (Why, though, when people meet genies, don't they say: "I wish that all the wishes I make from now on will come true." I know that's what I'm going to say when I meet mine ...)