The Stolen Coat

A story of ruin and rescue

Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash

Wes Silverman’s coat had vanished.

A droopy, grayish pea coat, it had seen more years than Wes himself, and he’d seen a few. His sagging flesh and the scattered hairs lingering on his head so matched its fabric he might have been part of it, or it of him. The coat might once have been fine, but now, missing a couple buttons just as its owner missed a few teeth, it…