Modern Fairy Tale

Moon in The Closet
by Bud Cato

           In a small farming community outside of Sarasota lived the Smith family. They were a very hard working group of characters who only knew how to raise cattle and play football. Leon was the youngest, at eleven years old he was just beginning middle school. His older brother Ray was about to graduate high school and had just received a scholarship to play football at the University of Florida. The boys father (a single parent), Glenn was a very hard working and strict man who felt football was the only way his sons could go anywhere in life. Leon felt different about this, he was a dreamer and wast much of an athlete.
          Leon's biggest secret was his second life in an alternate universe. Every night before bed he would enter his closet and instantly be teleported to the moon world of Neutraz. This moon world was amazing in every way, it was most beautiful and all your dreams are meant to come true in Neutraz. This moon was made out of the best foods known to man, at any moment you could lay down and stuff your face with anything that popped into your head. You could be eating pumpkin pie then be eating a t-bone steak the next minute. It was inhabited by the food elves who called themselves "The Lelums".
          One night, Leon and his father got into a big argument about his future as a football star. Leon knew this was not what he wanted and decided to got to Neutraz forever and never return. He backed all that he had and left for his moon fantasy land.
           Once he had arrived on the moon he knew he would have to establish himself as the leader of the Lelum elves. To do so, he had to enter a eating contest against the biggest Lelum who called himself Allban. They would have to eat deviled eggs until they couldn't anymore or exploded. This contest was to take place on Cinnamon Roll Mountain. Once the two competitors climbed through all the gooey icing to the top of the mountain they would begin the contest. Leon and Allban had went through their first two dozen eggs with no hesitation. After 38 deviled eggs Allban could not continue and had to declare Leon the ruler of Neutraz.
             Once Leon became ruler he lived his life in peace, not having to worry about football or his family. After a year in Neutraz he had weighed almost 323 lbs and was as happy as ever.