It's a very quick and painless process.

Here's one I made using an illustration I did a couple years ago http://teespring.com/gigiphinaleus

Please, if you can remember the name of the story, I'd love to read it.

It was a really old story.. I think I read it in a magazine in the early '80s and it was old then..

The Science Fiction Stack Exchange has a fun "story identification" forum. People post vague descriptions of "some book I read as a kid in the 1980s" and other people (if you are lucky) prove their knowledge of science fiction trivia by identifying the story:

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identi...