A short story to be written in 50 words not one word less, not one word more!, for the Freewriters community to #ZapFic50Friday contest. Prompt: "steep"
Nobody guarded the valuable lamp, no doubt, because it was the prison of a genie. All the unfortunate souls who dared to free him did so full of hope that he would grant them their greatest dream, ignoring that, after millennia, the prisoner had learned to extract a steep price.
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