Not the Same Shoes: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
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The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.
Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
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Not the Same Shoes - Simon Van Booy
Not the Same Shoes
A short story from Not the Same Shoes
Simon Van Booy
Dedication
To Maddie
Contents
Dedication
Not the Same Shoes
Acknowledgments
An Excerpt from Tales of Accidental Genius
About the Author
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
NOT THE SAME SHOES
It was past midnight when he reached the old mine entrance. The rain had stopped. Puddles were silvered by moonlight. Water weighed down clumps of his hair, which sat upon his forehead like small black anchors.
The ground of Edmonson County had not been mined since Kentucky was divided by the Civil War. The structure around the entrance to the mine was a tangle of girders strangled by ivy. There were rotting coal wagons fused by rust to lengths of track.
The air was thick and humid. Plumes of his white breath rose into the darkness. Broken glass, like fallen stars, crunched beneath his shoes. His shoes—full of holes—were the shoes she had plucked from the shop shelf years ago.
How handsome,
she had said all those years ago at the store. He had stood at the mirror slightly bowlegged, his eyes askew as they both peered at the crooked body to which the shoes were attached.
How handsome in those shoes,
she had said as they bounced their way home in the truck, such a long time ago.
He bent his way past the