Jenna finds an abandoned shoe on the side of the road, unaware that the shoe waits deliberately.
Inexplicably drawn to the shoe, Jenna takes it home.
But what the shoe wants from her? A price she never wanted to pay…
A short, chilling retelling of the Red Shoes fairy tale
Shoe
The shoe lay by the road, waiting. Someone would pick it up. Someone always did.
Jenna halted. A shoe lay in her way. A shoe, just one, lying on its side. Strange.
She peered at it. Black, pointy toe with pleats in the leather… It looked exactly like Carina’s shoes, the ones Jenna had been envying for the last month. Gorgeous shoes. She’d tried them on once when Carina was out.
But this was only one shoe. She couldn’t wear one. She turned away.
Tink.
Jenna looked back. The shoe stood upright—and it stared at her forlornly.
Wind gusted down the street and the shoe rocked on its slender heel. Jenna knelt in front of it. It looked so vulnerable…
The wind puffed again, and Jenna decided. She scooped the shoe up. It didn’t matter that it was pair-less. She couldn’t leave it out here alone.