{"id":43895,"date":"2021-06-16T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/?p=43895"},"modified":"2021-06-17T19:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:29:56","slug":"theres-only-one-lamp-to-rub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2021\/06\/16\/theres-only-one-lamp-to-rub\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s only one Lamp to rub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_43896\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Lamp - A Kreme Kollection by Kris P. Kreme\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover-1074x1536.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover-555x794.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lamp &#8211; A Kreme Kollection by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div><strong>The entire Lamp saga in one massive Kollection!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greg&#8217;s a typical loner of a college student, spending most of his summers and spare time at home, but it isn&#8217;t as though he has no interests&#8230; only that those interests happen to be a somewhat forbidden fascination with a petite Asian named Courtney.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated and horny, and Courtney too shy to even understand how she only makes it worse for him, Greg goes and decides to open up a box which reveals an antique oil lamp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/1089876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find it on Smashwords now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B097FFD8B5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Now On Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over 50,000 Words of Kreme<\/p>\n<p>The entire Lamp saga in one massive Kollection!<\/p>\n<p>Greg&#8217;s a typical loner of a college student, spending most of his summers and spare time at home, but it isn&#8217;t as though he has no interests&#8230; only that those interests happen to be a somewhat forbidden fascination with a petite Asian named Courtney.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated and horny, and Courtney too shy to even understand how she only makes it worse for him, Greg goes and decides to open up a box which reveals an antique oil lamp.<\/p>\n<p>In a puff of smoke, just like the old stories and movies, a huge apparition of a face informs him that he has just been granted three wishes. It&#8217;s the solution to his problems if he isn&#8217;t hallucinating, so Greg wishes he could be a big success and popular with women.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about working out problems for this blended family, and the solutions are more enjoyable than they could wish for, as long as they have The Lamp. <\/p>\n<p><strong>This work contains the previously released stories in The Lamp series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>White Wedding Rubs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before it was about Rubbing More than the Lamp, a certain ancient artifact was a quirky wedding gift from Brennan&#8217;s eccentric Aunt Mary May. Marrying a sweet girl named Kim, Brennan makes the mistake of wishing improvements to her big day. From wishing she&#8217;d never argue and get along with her stepfather, to wishing she&#8217;d fill out her wedding dress and be the bride of his dreams. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rubbing more than the Lamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greg&#8217;s dad is a smart guy, the curator for a locally based traveling museum on world cultures. Of course Greg thinks the smartest move he made was marrying Courtney in recent years, a cute, shy, Asian. When he decides a distraction is in order while his dad is out of town, checking a package that arrived leaves Greg face to ghostly face with an actual genie that offers him three wishes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Still Rubbing More than the Lamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caleb is the curator for a museum and when he left town a new artifact arrived. An ancient oil lamp, his son Greg cleaned it and discovered an actual genie that granted three wishes, just not in the way he intended. That&#8217;s when old friends Derek and his redhead wife Liz visit. They are loaned the lamp, told it can give them three wishes. But assuming it to be a joke, will Derek make bad wishes? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Always Rubbing More than the Lamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Greg discovered the genie in the old lamp. Then Caleb tasted what his son enjoyed, his exotic wife Courtney. Finally they shared the lamp with an old friend Derek, whose wife Liz lacked in the curves each always wished she had. Now it&#8217;s payback time, Derek realizing Liz never made a wish, and through her and Courtney&#8217;s wishes, Derek, Caleb, and Greg can achieve revenge and much more. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/1089876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find it on Smashwords now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B097FFD8B5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Now On Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire Lamp saga in one massive Kollection! Greg&#8217;s a typical loner of a college student, spending most of his summers and spare time at home, but it isn&#8217;t as though he has no interests&#8230; only that those interests happen to be a somewhat forbidden fascination with a petite Asian named Courtney. Frustrated and horny, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2021\/06\/16\/theres-only-one-lamp-to-rub\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,146],"tags":[63,147],"class_list":["post-43895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tales-from-the-kreme","category-the-lamp","tag-tales-from-the-kreme","tag-the-lamp","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheLamp-cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iXk7-bpZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41884,"url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2018\/08\/08\/its-time-for-a-kustom-wish\/","url_meta":{"origin":43895,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s time for a Kustom Wish","author":"Kris P. 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