4 THE ONCE-UPON-A-TIME MACHINE

CHAPTER 4 THE ONCE-UPON-A-TIME MACHINE After Bill leaves, Terry opens the package and installs the switch. 'Okay,' he says. 'The Once-upon-a-time machine is ready to write our book for us. All we have to do now is decide what sort of book we want it to write.' 'A funny one,' I say. 'Good idea,' says Terry, 'but exactly how funny would you like it?'

'So funny,' I say, 'that if you were reading it and drinking a glass of milk at the same time, you would laugh so hard that you would snort milk out of your nose.' 'No problem,' says Terry, 'I'll just set the FUNNY dial to MILK-SNORTINGLY FUNNY and the machine will take care of the rest!'

'Cool!' I say. 'This is going to be the easiest book we've ever written!' 'You mean the easiest book we've never written!' says Terry. 'What else would you like in it?' 'Lots of action!' I say. 'One action-packed book coming up!' says Terry, turning the ACTION dial as far to the right as possible.

'What about characters?' says Terry. 'I guess we want all the regulars,' I say, 'like you, me and Jill, and also a few new ones, just to keep things interesting.' 'You got it,' says Terry.

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