Milford Spitz and the very fast machine is a story about two run-away pre-teens, Milford Spitz and Zoe May, who have no relatives and desperately want to escape poor foster care treatment.  They team up with the local bully, Bobby Mang, who is also escaping from a horrible home life.  However, Bobby really means business when it comes to running away.  You see he has a very fast machine that can travel in space, through dimensions and in time.  Bobby wasn’t originally from Minnesota like Milford and his friend, Little Zoe May. The very fast machine (VFM as it is referred to) takes them to adventures way beyond Milford’s expectations.  Bobby reveals how the machine came to be; and that his father and Professor Albert Einstein crafted the machine.  As it turns out Einstein wasn’t actually from Earth or from Bobby’s world either and no one’s quite sure where he came from.  Bobby accounts how his government, who very much wanted the very fast machine, killed his family.

       Not long after the three kids are into their travels, Bobby Mang’s home planet dictator, President Gaslin, and his military pursue them.  As they are traveling that first trip, Bobby explains how his Dad told him never to push the switch for time travel.  Bobby even put Duct tape over it.  Of course the three kids knew that time travel was never a good idea.  They had watched enough of the Sci-fi channel to know better (…but then again?)  Along the way the three adventurers enlist the help of several interesting characters including some very gigantic inhabitants on their first stop, and later a world in a different dimension that is devoid of color with threatening beings that are only shadows.  

 
       Through out their journeys,  Milford, Little Zoe May, and Bobby Mang discover an education that they could never get at the Winona Middle School back in Winona, Minnesota.