The Magic Shop

Animacy is overrated.

... to be a thing. Apparently the machine did hear you, but it didn't understand what you meant. It flashed a small message across its fading LCD front panel.

ERROR. PLEASE SPECIFY: THING

To be fair, you were kind of vague. What you meant, though, was that you've always wondered what it might be like to be like a book or a table or a rock. What would it like to just sit there all day and be a thing?

"I'd like to be an inanimate object, please."

ERROR. PLEASE SPECIFY: INANIMATE OBJECT

Now you're even more certain than before that you're being messed with. Maybe it's always going to say you're last word is too vague. Still, maybe if you are specific enough, something cool will happen. A machine obviously can't really turn you into an object, but maybe there's a funny filtered photo or some kind cheeky quip that prints out. It's certainly worth one more try to get your quarter's worth anyway.

"Ok, wish machine. Listen to my words carefully this time. I wish to be ..."

What do you do now?

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• a hardback, printed copy of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
• a wooden dining room table with four legs.
• a 300-cubic-centimeter chunk of limestone.
• a crimson full-sized sedan with a sunroof but no spoiler.
• a black sports car with automatic transmission.
• a yellow #2 pencil with a red rubber eraser.
• a 1985 Canadian one-dollar coin.
• a wish machine exactly like you.
• a three-meter by four-meter plaid-pattern carpet.
• a beige, PC-compatible QWERTY keyboard.
• a blank, white sheet of A4 paper.
• a solid gold statue with the exact shape and size of my current body.
• an exact copy of the pair of shoes I am wearing.
• an blank, rewritable compact disc, 120 mm in diameter.
• a disposable 500 mL bottle filled with pure water.
• one hundred kilograms of nitrogen gas.
• a single carbon-14 atom.
• a deuterium nucleus.
• an iron rod with a two-foot length and a half-inch radius.

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