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ROMANTIC FICTION | WRITING PROMPTS
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A First Line Fiction story — Prompt #44
The first thing he noticed about her was the mismatched shoes. He was installing his custom maple and chestnut accordion-style shutters, a rolling track of piano-like keys, on the new book cabinet he’d built for the library when the odd pair of shoes entered his sight line.
The light steps of the mismatched shoes on the compact beige carpet halted his work. A dainty ankle crowned a petite, pale foot with the pink and white heel delicately perched on its toes. The two-tone shoe, with its block heel suspended above the floor, had a broad, pink strap fastened with a large, pink button. White leather with flower shapes punched out of it cradled the sides of her foot.
The other shoe was almost identical in style, but it was white and black with floral lace detail at the midfoot. It was a preppy style, and he instantly thought of Olivia Newton-John in Grease. From the recesses of his mind that kept a log of trivia facts, the words “Mary Janes” surfaced.
The shoes hesitated as if deciding on a direction, then rapidly made short steps and disappeared from view and into the aisles at the end of the library.
