Chapter 2

I decided to go sober since last week, so nothing could impair me with what I was going to do. After a full lunch at the diner I walked back home and made preparations.
I had one backpack filled with some toothpaste, toothbrushes, nail clippers, a brush and comb set. I couldn’t figure it out, but I swore I was forgetting something in that set… Hope it wasn’t important.
Also a dozen small books and magazines. I had no idea if this were to work, would I be bored after any amount of time.
My next bag was a military duffel bag filled with spare clothing, a third of its space filled with undershorts and socks, three pairs of jeans, and gray and black t-shirts. I also chucked in a few caps, and lastly a winter blanket.
My guitar came next. I latched it closed in its coffin case, one of the few luxury items I ever bought for myself. I mean this guitar case was just bad-fucking-ass to look at.
My last Items I packed with me was my pistol, shotgun, and three boxes of ammo. Never knew.

The past few weeks, I’ve been tying up all my loose ends.
At Kell’s, since I was a regular, I announced I was leaving town. As a gesture of farewell I had a free dinner and shots for my last night. At work I’ve been, in so-so subtle ways, telling folks at work that I was moving out to the west coast. So the last day of work, I picked up my last paycheck, said goodbye to everyone, and drove home.

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“Okay, this is it.” I said to myself.
I reached under my bed and pulled out the lamp, then summoned the genie.
I quick rub on the side and the genie, like before, formed from the smoke. My heart skipped two beats getting ready for my three wishes.
“Master, you have summoned me, and I am here to obey.”

“Yeah.. I’m ready to make my first wish.” I couldn’t suppress the smile on my face if my wish were it be granted to me. My smile was as wide as a kids smile in a toy store.
“My first wish… I wash, I mean… I wish to have my own entire planet, to create by my own design, with my belongings.” I said as I pointed to my stuff.
The genie, clapped his hands together once, then we were in blackness. It it was not just a blackness, but thousands if not millions or billions of miles of blackness. The genie pulled dust from nowhere and it formed into a ball between his hands. Holding it he “injected” a light from his hand into the sphere, then he handed it to me.

“This world, is now at your upmost command.”

“This small thing?” It wasn’t any bigger than a basketball.

“It will form the world at your command. Its size, flora, functions, laws, and every minute detail is for you to decide. Now that your design awaits you, summon me again when you are ready to demand you two final wishes.” With that, he returned to his smoke form, and returned into the lamp.

Now I was alone in the darkness with the bigass dust-ball floating in between my hands.
“Well shit, now what?” I absently thought back to Williamsport, wondering what I had gotten myself into.
Then the dustball grew quickly, and not just grew big, the dustball grew so damn big so quickly, I thought it was going to crush me. The dust then grew grass trees, bushes, dirt roads, the lake and the two fishing ponds, and finished with a matching landscape of town, minus any man-made buildings
“Whoa…” my mouth hung open at what just happened, but when I looked to the edge of town I saw what only could be seen a hundred miles up in the sky. A curvature of the horizon.
<A planet the size of my home town? Well…> Well as long as nobody was around to hear me say anything weird.
“Planet, grow to the size of Texas.” The sphere swelled and the curvature began flattening out as the mass of dirt below me expanded.
“Damn, that’s cool.” But I could still see a definite curvature on the horizon.
<Well shit, it’s my planet.>
“Grow to the size of Earth, and include it’s sea’s and oceans.” For the next half-hour the ground under me, trembled like a small earthquake. When it stopped, I assumed I got what I requested. The horizon was flat as I would see it normally.
“Okay… include all… forms of plant life, of natural order.” The ground below me began to change. From trees, and bushes to vines and flowers. As far as my eyes could see all around. I’ve never seen a tree grow so damn quick before. Within minutes, a forest of Ash trees grew as if it had taken thirty years.

My day, went on. The great and small land masses, the shallow and deep bodies of water. Trees and vines producing fruits of all kinds. The ponds and lakes nearby me were so clean, I could just drink straight out of them.