The West Old & New Vol. III Issue III March 2014 | Page 19

An eclectic collection of short stories

Excerpt from “Another Person’s Shoes”
Delbert Alexander Theiser could vaguely remember enjoying the winter’s night with a glass of brandy, in front of the fire place listening to classical music, the sound covering the high pitched fever of the rapid fire tunes
from the kid’s gaming machines in the family room below. His lovely wife
of twenty odd years, Myrna, was sitting across from him with a book of
word puzzles, a cup of hot tea on the table beside her and her thin blonde
hair already in curlers, the edges of a heavy terry robe open and tucked
around gray sweat pants. He remembered wondering how long it had been
since he’d seen her in anything even remotely sexy, and he remembered
crawling between the flannel sheets of the large King size bed after looking
out the window into a light snow falling over the dense forest that hid his
rambling ranch house from the neighbors. And that was the last thing he
remembered before falling into the bliss of sleep.

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He woke to a buzzing sound, the soft purr of flimsy wings hovering
near an ear