A Young Child Makes A Discovery [FICTOID]

While playing Superman, little Stanley decided it was okay if he checked how accurate his X-ray vision was by opening his mother’s chest of drawers.

A moviegoer all his life (then again, he was only four), he knew such transgressions were acceptable.

After all, what was the worst that ever happened when movie or TV kids did it?  His mom would turn the channel with the clicker, that’s all.

Using that as his yardstick for acceptable behavior, he began checking.  First her makeup drawer, then where she kept her aloe and her ginkgo biloba.

Every time, his checking proved his X-ray vision was flawless.

Still, he had his doubts.

Superman Stanley could only see into drawers his mother opened in front of him.

He didn’t know what lay in the big secret drawer at the bottom.

He had to find out, of course.  Carefully, so as not to wake his mother napping in the living room, he opened the big drawer at the bottom and poked through its cavern-like interior.

At first he felt disappointed, there didn’t seem to be anything in it but clothes.

Taking one out, Stanley felt puzzled:  Did his mother like playing Catwoman?

There were other funny costumes, strange masks, all sorts of odd stuff.

There was even a package of peculiar looking balloons, all stretchy and covered with knobs and sticky fluid.

And then, below that -- Jackpot!

His mother’s secret toy rocketship collection.

There were all sorts and colors, and they made buzzing sounds when he played with them, just like real spaceships.

He heard the front doorbell ring and his mother get up.  He remembered her friend Marge was coming over and bringing her son Leonard for a playdate.

Grabbing his mother’s biggest toy rocket -- a big black one with all sorts of guns sticking out -- he ran to show Leonard.

© Buzz Dixon