Comments on: YOUR OWN PERSONAL GENIE • by Grá Linnaea

By: Arthur

Arthur — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:35 +0000

He had to go through with it; it was in the ‘contract’. He’d obviously got more out of it than he could admit. Poignant.

By: Ian Rochford

Ian Rochford — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:30:54 +0000

Worked for me! Great voice, very inventive. If petty complaints are all one can come up with, what a wonderful marriage it must have been.

This would be very effective read aloud; it needs those nuances to come across fully, as it needs to be read carefully and not skimmed.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34:59 +0000

Perfect.

By: pdwarner

pdwarner — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:40:14 +0000

Loved this story. Aren’t we all genies when we choose who to spend our lives with? We’re all so powerful and certain of our immortality. Yet, we fall in love and find ourselves in the everyday minutia of diapers and annoying pets and dead relatives who we’ve grow to care about. And we resent it because these things have kept us from our higher calling. The end realization that it’s the everyday, inconsequential pieces of a loving life that is truly missed, is very powerful.