5 Pleasing All of the People

CHAPTER FIVE PLEASING ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME. SIMPLE ENOUGH. Franny started preparing to assemble things her classmates liked. "The girls like kittens," she said. "And the boys seem to enjoy soccer."

"Everybody likes candy," she said, and Igor ran and got two big bags of chocolate bars. "And I think they like clowns. They like clowns, don't they?" she asked Igor. Igor shrugged his shoulders. Franny began tossing everything into her Atomic Combiner. (Most mad scientists have one, you know.)

"And puppies, and crayons, and balloons, and cake," she commanded. Igor handed her one after the other.

Franny began to grin. "And now we atomically combine them, and all that's left is to present it to the class." Franny pressed the button and the air was filled with the unmistakable aroma of kitten molecules fusing with clown atoms.