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Weekly Contest #231
My parents keep a strange archive of shoes in their back porch; Mom saved one shoe from each of our pairs, as a way of tracking me and my sister’s growth. instead of marking a line on the doorframe, she measures time by the increasing distance between our heel and our toes. One summer holiday, my older sister Mickey and I sat on the scorching sidewalk and examined the feet of pedestrians. Mickey had theories about people's character traits and personalities based on the shoes they wore."Men who wear pointy shoes have a problematic perso...
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