(Author's Note: Credit for this episode should go to the original author Eddie Glover.)
Tommy Hill looked around as he entered the shop in the mall. He'd heard weird things about this place, things that made even a career shoplifter like him think twice. But he could see the small, golden ring sitting in the window ... almost as if it were on display.
"Can I help you?" a voice asked from behind him. "Wha!? Um ... I'm just looking," he nervously answered. "Yes. I'm sure you are," the old man said, with a frown. "Call me if you need help."
Tommy was stunned. With all this stuff up here, the old man was leaving him alone. It was almost too good to be true!
"Hello!" a buxom young woman cooed, as she walked in with her boyfriend.
Tommy watched her for a moment, her huge breasts stretching her shirt. Her ass was covered by a skintight leather miniskirt that showed it off. He wanted her ... if only ...
The old man was helping the couple, so Tommy grabbed the ring and tucked it in his pocket, then looked to make sure the old man hadn't seen anything.
He walked out quickly, keeping an eye on the shop to make sure the old man didn't call a cop or something.
"Man, I think that guy ripped you off!" the young man who'd entered the shop with his girl told the owner.
"Yes. He did," the old man said, with a grin.
"Aren't you going to call a cop or something!?" the guy asked, in wonder.
"No need. The thief will get what he deserves. Now what can I help you with?" he asked.
Ten minutes later, the old man waved to the twosome. "Goodbye, my dears Come back any time!" he laughed.
The two chesty women both smiled, neither remembering that one of them had been a man less than ten minutes before.
The old wizard watched their leather-clad asses sway as they walked off, now identical twins in every way. The young man had asked for a potion to make a duplicate of his girl. He assumed that when his girl drank it, she'd split into two women ... instead he'd been turned into her twin. In fact they would be sisters and everyone would remember them as such.
His thoughts turned back to the shoplifter. Apparently the man had taken the golden ring he kept up front to attract scumbags like that. It granted wishes ... but only wishes of others within ten feet ... and not the wishes of the one that wore it!
Tommy sat in his dorm room looking at his newest property. He saw the inscription and gasped. "The Ring of Wishes ..." There was more, but it had been rubbed off.
"Wishes, huh? He held it in his hand and spoke. "I wish I had a thousand dollars on the table before me!"
When nothing happened, he frowned, feeling like a fool for even thinking such a thing. He slipped the ring on until he could sell it downtown.
There was a knock at his door and when he opened it ...
