On the Island
“Having received his present, a toy car which ran along the green linoleum when it was wound up, Iain went outside into the day which was illuminated by a red sun low on the horizon which seemed to cast a reddish shade across the snow. He saw a crow rocking slightly on a fence, and a buzzard wheeling about the reddish sky.
He wasn’t going anywhere in particular and it was near a small pool of frozen water that he saw the shoe. It was lying beside the pool and a little snow had drifted over it. F...or some reason, Iain stopped and flicked the snow away from the shoe, which he held lightly in his hand. It was an old black shoe, wrinkled and laceless, and the heel was almost worn away. Iain held it up against the sun thinking of nothing and now and again examining the leather and wondering whose shoe it had been. It was definitely not a woman’s shoe or a girl’s shoe and from its size it seemed to be more a man’s shoe than a boy’s. It had received much use in its time, he thought, for not only was the heel worn away but there were many nails missing from the sole.MoreLess
He wasn’t going anywhere in particular and it was near a small pool of frozen water that he saw the shoe. It was lying beside the pool and a little snow had drifted over it. F...or some reason, Iain stopped and flicked the snow away from the shoe, which he held lightly in his hand. It was an old black shoe, wrinkled and laceless, and the heel was almost worn away. Iain held it up against the sun thinking of nothing and now and again examining the leather and wondering whose shoe it had been. It was definitely not a woman’s shoe or a girl’s shoe and from its size it seemed to be more a man’s shoe than a boy’s. It had received much use in its time, he thought, for not only was the heel worn away but there were many nails missing from the sole.MoreLess
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