A Pair Of Blue Shoes - a short story by Patrick D. Smith

From the author of A Land Remembered...

All Cathy Flanagan seemed to dream about were those blue shoes. They were THE most beautiful pair of shoes ever created, a pair of exquisite blue patent leather shoes on display in the fly-specked window of Banks Mercantile Store. The only problem was they cost more than her impoverished family could afford. But Cathy was determined they would be hers, so she set about figuring out a way to make that happen. What she learns in the process, what a person can endure in the pursuit of their dreams and the unfairness of life, teaches her an important lesson.

Readers of Smith's novel, Angel City, will see one of Smith's themes of the struggles of poor people in the south. A Pair Of Blue Shoes was written decades before Smith gained international fame as a writer; those familiar with his acclaimed work of Florida historical fiction, A Land Remembered, will see him developing the writing style in this tender story that led to the awards and accolades that came later in his career.