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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: A surreal, comic fable about love, sex, freedom, and a very wacky immortal woodpecker.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005

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Words: 1497
Reading time: 4-5 min.
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Once there was a captain of industry who lost his shoes. They were fine brown shoes, with red leather tassels. The captain of industry, whose name was George, sat in a board meeting in his socks. Everyone was upset about the stock market crash and they all had opinions, but George could not pay any attention to them at all because he was so worried about his shoes. So he said "excuse me" and got up from his soft leather chair, and even though he was the most important of them all, they were arguing so hard that no one noticed when he left the room.

He went onto the roof because he thought his shoes might be there, and because he had a thing about roofs. He walked carefully over the gravel, among the ventilator fans, which looked like giant steel mushrooms with spinning heads. He also stopped to pick up the gravel with his toes, which he could do in his socks because he was a talented man. He could even throw the gravel off the roof into the parking lot with his toes.