The Man Who Could Work Miracles
by H. G. Wells
When George McWhirter Fotheringay discovers that he can work miracles by sheer force of
will, the results are wont to bring unexpected consequences, leading to one final miracle
that invokes time travel.
— Michael Main
As he struggled to get his shirt over his head, he was struck with a brilliant idea.
“Let me be in bed,” he said, and found himself so. “Undressed,’ he stipulated;
and, finding the sheets cold, added hastily, ’and in my nightshirt—ho, in a nice soft
woolen nightshirt. Ah!” he said with immense enjoyment. “And now let me be
comfortably asleep . . .”
”The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Pantoum in Prose” by H. G.
Wells, Illustrated London News, Summer 1898.