Super Sized

by Megan

Selda May Tulip loved shoes. She loved them with an undying passion. Then one day she decided one lovely pair of shoes on her feet was simply not enough. But try as she might, two pairs at once would just not do.

Zelda's feet were rather small. She wore a size six and a half and they were just right. However, when Zelda wandered into the shoe store, something caught her eye. On the top shelf of the sale rack laid two masterpieces. There they stood--a pair of boring, brown flats . . . in a whopping size 13! She rushed over to the sales clerk and they were sold in a blink of an eye.

On her way home she decided she could not wait any longer to put them on. she tood a step in her grand aapparel only to find her feet would not stay inside the openings. "Oh no!" she cried. She tore through the town, flung open the front door, and snatched up a bottle of glue. "Perfect."

Zelda had decided that bigger was always better. Once her feet were secured, she pranced through the house (though her prancing was more like stumbling) and showed her parents. "What on earth are you wearing?" they shouted. "My new shoes." she said simply.

That night Zelda found it difficult to sleep. Because her feet were now pasted inside her shoes, she could no longer lay on her stomach. By the next day Zelda had bags under her eyes and several blisters on her toes and heels--but it was worth it.

Getting dressed also proved to be a challenge. Her jeans would not pull on over her enormous feet. She yanked and she tugged but it was to no avail. In the end, Zelda found a skirt and slid it on with relative ease. "Much better."

As she journeyed down the hall she discovered yet another problem. "Stairs." She whispered. she would not give up now, she was hungry! So Zelda turned sideways and carefully planted her foot across the step. She ascended the treacherous path ever so slowly, but she succeeded.

Throughout her day Zelda faced many more dilemmas, such as walking to school, playing soccer in the gym, and convincing a police officer that she was not drunk when she failed to walk a straight line.

Three weeks later, there was hardly a sentence spoken at school that didn't involve the excitement of the upcoming dance. Questions whirred about: "Who should I ask?" "What dress will match my eyes?" "Is it too late for teeth whitening?" But no bigger question was asked then the footwear challenge. "How large are your shoes going to be?"

There was a new fashion flying about the shoe industry. Very few stores did not engage in the new "Bigger is Better" footwear extravaganza. What a revelation!

On the day of the dance Zelda was ecstatic. she had started a trend that would rule the dance floor! However, when the moment of truth had arrived, she found she could not quite reach her partner. By the time she was home everyone agreed it was certainly a night to remember.

Many months later, big shoes were simply part of society. Then Zelda's father suggested "Hey what if we started enlarging food?" Poor Zelda screamed in surprise. "Oh my father! Why, that would be absurd!"