SEVEN DAY TERROR
BY R. A. LAFFERTY
Things just vanished. It was simple. As
a matter of fact, it was child's play!
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1962.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
"Is there anything you want to make disappear?" Clarence Willoughby asked his mother.
"A sink full of dishes is all I can think of. How will you do it?"
"I just built a disappearer. All you do is cut the other end out of a beer can. Then you take two pieces of red cardboard with peepholes in the middle and fit them in the ends. You look through the peepholes and blink. Whatever you look at will disappear."
"Oh."