Very Short Stories

"I've never seen a pair of shoes that shape to the foot like yours,” she said at the dining room table in her neighbor's house. “Are they a sandal?” she asked the woman.

“Shoes?” The neighbor laughed. “These ain’t shoes” She licked her dirty thumb into a less dirty thumb, and with as much gumption she could muster, she pressed down and across the bottom of her foot. She held up her now pitch black thumb and laughed even louder.