Tune In Tomorrow (novel)

Tune in Tomorrow is a short story written by R. L. Stine, published in "More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps".

ummary

Elizabeth, a young girl who recently moved to town, has nothing to do because of the rain. She starts watching a soap opera called "Looking Toward Tomorrow", which is about a young girl named Elinor, on channel six. Elizabeth notices that events happening in the show happen to her a few minutes later.

In the first episode, Elinor drops a glass and then receives a letter containing bad news from a neighbor who received the letter by mistake. After the show ends, Elizabeth drops a glass inside her kitchen, and then her neighbor gives her a letter that was supposed to be delievered to her. The letter is from her old friend, Mary, who tells her that she can't visit her and that her hamster had died.

The next day, on "Looking Toward Tomorrow", Elinor's mother loses her memory in a freak accident. In real life, Elizabeth's mother loses her memory when a tree goes through her bedroom window and she gets hit on the head by a branch.

The next day, as Elizabeth watches what will happen to Elinor on "Looking Toward Tomorrow", Elinor gets attacked by a Rottweiler when the TV goes black. Elizabeth calls her friend Lauren and asks her if she saw the episode, but Lauren tells her that she couldn't find channel six. Elizabeth calls the cable company, and they tell her they don't have a channel six. She hangs up the phone, and goes to open the front door when... it turns out the entire story is nothing but two friends watching a TV show called "Life with Elizabeth".

Trivia

*The story is similar to a novel by Christopher Pike called "The Eternal Enemy", which is about a teenage girl who buys a VCR that records the news before it happens.