“The slipper isn’t glass or golden. Not one used for ballet or tightrope walking. An ordinary slipper.”
Albert Mobilio’s fictional stories are based on old-time games played in parlors, basements, and fields with balls, brooms, blindfolds, and cards. As winners and losers emerge from dodge ball, word games, and balloon contests so does the theme of our inner life as ceaseless competition. There is calculation, envy, humiliation, and joy, and there is always the next round when everything might change. Here, he reads the story “Hunt the Slipper.”
Read the story.
