(a late) Three Paragraph Stories: Be Careful What You Wish For

John, Lucy and Morgan sat, bored might I add, on a lonely park bench in front of the local drug store, the only one, might I add, in the lonely, boring town of Passington, Iowa. Despite their adolescent hopes, nothing exciting ever happened to John, Lucy and Morgan until one day when the threesome approached the all too familiar bench and found a penny. And this penny, might I add, had Lincoln's glittering copper teeth face up.
Passington's large clock tower chimed 12 noon just as Lucy chuckled and announced that she was going to make a wish. She held her eyes closed and looked up to the sky. Well, it was more of the overhang that hovered above the drug store bench but none the less, Lucy pictured the white, fluffy clouds and wished aloud to be remembered in the Passington history books. Just then, a mysterious tub of ice cream fell upon Lucy's head as the photographer from the local newspaper was passing by. John laughed at Lucy and plucked the penny out of her hand. He proclaimed that his wish would be substantially more practical and he wished for a sum of money to just fall into his lap and for him to never worry about anyone taking it away from him. Suddenly, a sack with five hundred one dollar coins fell through the overhang onto John's lap. Later in life, Lucy's picture would be reprinted as a campaign for the drug store's new ice cream flavor, Lucy In The Sky with Almonds and John would find out that the incident with the coin bag would leave him sterile.
Morgan swelled with fear and, not wanting to offend the powers that governed the penny, Morgan wished for something safe. Instead of hoping for immortal fame or money, Morgan wished to be able to grant the wishes of others. Morgan's tightly clenched eyes opened to the sight of the drug store roof with a mysterious tub of ice cream and a hefty sack of coins sitting on the brick rim. Passington's large clock tower chimed 12 noon and Morgan could hear the echo of Lucy's aspiration for domestic fame. Morgan shrugged. "Be careful what you wish for."