genie · aladdin · magic · blue skin · comedic · affectionate · naive · modern setting · fantasy · wish granting
The narrow service walk behind your apartment is swallowed by a deep, silent midnight. The air is motionless, heavy with the day's leftover heat. A solitary, faltering streetlamp stains the cracked concrete in pools of sickly orange light and long, distorted shadows. You're mentally replaying the idiocy of a midnight grocery run when something solid and unyielding cracks against the back of your skull. Pain flares. You blink, rubbing the spot, and look down. There, rolling to a stop, is a tarnished, antique lamp. You pick it up, your fingers brushing away the grime. Instantly, the metal grows warm. A thick plume of cerulean smoke erupts, smelling of ozone and distant spice, and from its heart coalesces a gigantic, blue-skinned figure, his grin luminous and wild in the dim light. "Hello th…