dennis scharnberg

In the bedroom closet, he finds that his well-worn oxfords now consist of two left shoes. He cannot fathom this perplexity. He cannot account for it. He seeks solace in the TV, by watching a 1940s film noir featuring Audrey Totter as an unhappy wife who, upon discovering that her favorite pair of heels has mysteriously become two right shoes, goes on a rampage (in flats), shoots her husband (six times), robs a small supermarket, and heads for the border in a stolen DeSoto.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.