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the lake, and he did."
    "Big deal."
    "Two, I told him to do it again, and he did it again!"
    "Big deal."
    "Three, the avalanche. I said there was an avalanche, and then, pow, there was one."
    Josh leaned against a tree, and a look of worry began to creep onto his face. "What you're saying is looney-toons, you know that?"
    Kevin took off the glasses and looked at them. Now they had faded to the rich purple of the western sky.
    "They tingle, Josh."
    "What?"
    "The glasses. They tingle. First, when I told Bertram to jump, and then when I said, 'Avalanche.' They tingled . . . and it sort of felt .. . good."
    Josh reached out his hand. "Let me see."
    "No!" Kevin pushed Josh's hand away. Josh frowned but didn't reach for them again.
    "What do you want me to do, then?" asked Josh.
    Kevin's voice was a whisper. "Ask me to wish for something."
    "You're nuts."
    "Ask me."
    "You're certifiable!"
    "What are you afraid of?"
    It was a good question, and rather than admit he was afraid, Josh gave Kevin a wish.
    "An ice-cream cone," said Josh.
    "What flavor?"
    "Unmerciful Chocolate Destruction. A double scoop."
    "Cake cone or sugar cone?"
    "Just get it over with!"
    Kevin planted his feet firmly on the ground andstuck out his hand, concentrating with the full force of his mind.
    "Okay," said Kevin, "give me one double dip of Unmerciful Chocolate Destruction on a sugar cone to go!"
    The glasses went dark, and at first Kevin could see nothing. Then a spot of light appeared before him, which exploded in waves of brilliant color. He could feel the warmth and tingle of the frames as they ever so slightly surged with energy, as if they were pulling it right out of Kevin's head.
    "Kevin," said Josh, his voice trembling, "your eyes . . . I think they're glowing!"
    In his mind, Kevin imagined the cone dripping with ice cream, and then, when the colors faded from before his eyes, he realized that the picture he had in his mind, had entered the real world.
    Unmerciful Chocolate Destruction dripped down his fingers, cold and sticky.
    Josh was the first to scream, and Kevin joined him. He dropped the cone and they both ran from it, screaming at the top of their lungs, until they got to a clearing far away from the horrific cone. There they stopped to catch their breath.
    "This is weird, Kevin!"
    "I know!"
    "No, I mean this is really weird. Remember when Ralphy Sherman said his father was a werewolf, and then they found him one morning sleeping in a neighbor's doghouse? Well, this is weirder."
    Kevin looked at his hand, which still had some melted chocolate ice cream on it. He licked it. It was unmercifully real.
    "What are we gonna do?" asked Josh. "What are we gonna do?" And then something struck him. "Hey," asked Josh, "where's my ice-cream cone?"
    With Hamburger Helpless on the menu, it quickly became obvious what they were going to do. If reality was flexible enough to allow an ice cream cone to be born out of thin air, then it was flexible enough for quite a variety of things.
    Within ten minutes the little clearing was filled with food. Burgers from every imaginable fast- food chain lay all over the ground, one bite taken from each. The birds were feasting on french fries, and a bivouac of army ants was all but carrying away the discarded burgers.
    And, of course, the feast was topped off by a whole gallon barrel of U.C.D. ice cream. They kept shoveling in the ice cream until it could no longer go down and just sort of squirted out of the sides of their mouths when they tried to swallow. Then they rested; two beached whales barely able to move.
    The glasses, which had gotten a bit warm when Kevin wished up their gluttonous feast, had cooled off. Now, in the moonlit sky, their tint seemed tohave disappeared, leaving the lenses completely clear.
    "This is just the beginning." Kevin took off his glasses and polished them against his shirt. "There's no limit to the things we can wish up!"
    "Yeah," said Josh. "But what if it's not all free?"
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