Genie

My first ten pages are attached in PDF format.

The story

Jenny (25-30 years) knows technology like the back of her hand and could have easily become a rich hacker. Instead, she works as an unappreciated system administrator in a multinational corporation, lives with her mom, who can’t wait for Jenny to get married, and dreams of an opportunity to save the world.

One night Jenny sees a supernatural dream, where she finds herself in a church. A mysterious priest listens and writes down people’s wishes. Everybody else asks for something for themselves, but not Jenny. She asks for an opportunity to help people at least one person a day. The priest writes down that request with golden letters, but her name is misspelled and thus she becomes a “genie”.

From now on every day Jenny must grant the first wish she hears (except hers own). She has no magic lamp or supernatural powers to do that. Only the power of her brain and the help of her friend cop Brian (35-40 years), whose wife had left him for a more successful, but corrupt cop.

The stakes get higher as Jenny learns: if she fails to grant a wish in one day, she becomes sicker every day.

The first wish she has to grant is helping a little boy to see his mother, who has been wrongfully accused of theft and put to jail. Jenny would not get to meet her without the help of a cop Brian, who seemed not so serious about his job. Together they managed to find the real criminal, who had framed the boy’s mother and thus to grant Jenny’s first wish.