Tuesday, May 10, 2005

More than one is too many.

She pulled the list from his desk drawer and read it, trembling.

... fabric, elasticity, dye retention, toe/heel reinforcement, calf coverage ...

... and thus it continued for six pages of tightly spaced handwritten text.

Having discovered the list of criteria by which he judged argyle socks, she ran screaming into a nearby burning mattress factory.


1 Comments:

At 7:53 AM, Blogger elsbeth said...

It was a burning MATTless factory, actually. And she was running from someone who concentrated all their affectation into their socks. Her one thought, as she lay dying from smoke inhalation, was that in old age the sock-wearer would begin to purchase neck scarves and his secret would be out for the world to see.

 

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