One Red Shoe
Operative Maddie Surefoot studied the shoe. It was sure a big one, at least twenty feet high. She’d never seen one like it before. It looked familiar but she didn’t know where she’d seen it before. All she knew for sure was she had seen this shoe before.
Reaching inside her cotton suit jacket she pulled out her cell phone from her inside pocket and pressed the quick dial number for her section chief.
Barb Wallup’s voice answered after one buzz at the other end.
“Maddie. What’s up?” She sounded impatient. The boss must be having a bad day.
Maddie had already considered the summary of what she’d seen in her mind before she made the call. “Hi, Barb, I’m at the scene now and it’s exactly as reported by eyewitnesses.”
Barb snorted. “I thought I’d seen everything.” The chief p
