Shoes

By Brian Hammar

Tom Billings is a dying homeless man, struggling to stay alive until Christmas. Believing he hears some church bells, he promises a reward to a friend if he will take him to the church. When they arrive, Tom discovers the church has fallen on bad times - a fate similar to his own. During the last moments of his life, Tom makes an impression on three people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Hammar
• Release date: Nov 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466030091

Brian Hammar

Brian A. Hammar was born and raised in Lowell Massachusetts. After six years in the Air Force he settled in New Hampshire where he worked as an Engineer and Project Manager in commercial and industrial construction and renovation. During that time he began writing fiction and joined a group of writers known as the Tyngsborough Writers Group at the library in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. He found the group most helpful for their criticism and encouragement.

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Shoes

Brian A. Hammar

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SHOES

by

Brian A. Hammar

The huddled man coughed blood past his shaking hands. He wiped his chin with the sleeve of his worn overcoat. A bundle of shivering urban debris in a wet alley between two dumpsters, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. The open lid of the dumpster offered some shelter from the falling rain. A trash fire might dull the teeth of the voracious cold, but everything was too wet to burn and, besides, the cops would probably clear the alley if they saw a fire. There was little to do but huddle and shiver…and die.

Another man