Dopers seem to be very good at this generally, so I’m hoping someone can identify this one.
I think it’s a short story, although it may have been in a collection. I have a vague idea it may be Ray Bradbury, but I’m not at all sure how accurate that is. I would have read this in the mid 70s.
I remember a boy (?) being stuck ill in bed and (possibly) making some sort of wish, the consequences of which were that metaphorical things started to happen in reality. The only one I remember clearly is a gosspy type of woman in the local town whose tongue became literally hinged, so that it flapped on two sides at once. It was a horrid image, and I’m not sure what the consequences were. There may have been a dog that might have been half a cat by the end of it, or maybe there was something about raining cats and dogs?
Sorry - not much to go on, but anyone recognise it?
