A wish, a loophole, and a Lidl car park. 

This episode presents a spoken reading of a modern folk tale set in a familiar and deeply unremarkable place: a supermarket car park in the Irish Midlands.

When an ordinary man encounters an ancient, shape-shifting being bound to grant a single twisted wish, he turns to the most contemporary authority available to him: artificial intelligence. What follows is a story about language taken too seriously, precision mistaken for safety, and the unsettling continuity between old supernatural bargains and modern systems of logic.

By placing folklore, legalism, and AI reasoning side by side, the piece explores how control, certainty, and meaning break down when faced with entities that treat words not as communication, but as rope.

A wry, unsettling short story about wishes, stillness, and the blink of a cursor that never stops.

Best listened to on a good sound system, in triplicate.