Susanne Williams

Wet Socks

It was the lack of shoes that had paved the path of most of her life. Not that she hated shoes, quite to the contrary, but rather just not wearing them seemed to be the thread that one could follow through the majority of her life. Not quite as dramatic as the guy who builds homes in his bare feet, risking stubs and mud on the job site. And not like Tammy Duckworth whose prosthetics are their own special kind of shoes. Or certainly not a dramatic as Simone Biles whose tiny, naked feet launch her into the stratosphere while she flips and spins to her hearts content.