“Pet Store” by Digi (a.k.a. Shoeleather) I watched how gracefully they swam behind the illuminated glass. Back and forth they went in a slow, but semi rhythmic pattern. The walls of swirling colors were amazing. Hearing a splash I looked to see a lower tank being invaded by a small hand. What a mess. Water was being thrown everywhere. She slapped the water repeatedly, sending the fish in the nearby tanks into a frenzy. Before I could say anything a nearby female voice called out. She was an extremely attractive hour glassed twenty-something. Her smooth, shapely thighs seemed to bloom from the tightening material of her short black skirt as she bent over to dry the girl’s hands. As I admired her lovely backside, she squatted down and showed the world to me - her cute, bare, round heels as they rose off of her small shoes an rested against her settling buttocks. I immediately kneeled down as if to look at a lower fish tank. The semi-wrinked stretched skin of her sole flowed down into the front of her shoe and disappeared into the darkness where her toes now took the burden of all her balancing weight. A scraping soon distracted me from the enticing vision only three feet away. It was the sound of her nails searching the floor. One by one her sculpted hands embraced the wriggling fish that had been thrown out of the tank. What it must have been like to be underneath her, seeing her towering feet on either side of me, hearing her nails circling around me, watching as her giant, smooth legs rubbed and shifted above me, light peaking through her opening and closing thighs. Oh what a sight. Until, that is, she finished. She finished, and began to wipe the floor with a napkin from her purse. Wiping and not seeing that the fish that I had just imagined being was still there, waiting patiently under her dark, perfumed shadow. Forgotten. As the last of the water was swabbed up by her graceful hand, the gasping fish stared upward, through her slightly parted thighs at her beautiful face which looked like an angel. Her red hair, her fair skin, her - Slam! Her milky thighs closed again sending a rush of air over the now darkened fish. A moment later her sweet feet fell swiftly back into her shoes, ankles rocking back and forth to balance her rising. Without warning, her foot quickly rose and shifted to the side, coming to rest directly on top of the wide eyed fish. I watched as the exposed sides of her soles began to turn pale from the intense pressure of her step. As she talked to her daughter, I heard noting, nothing but the brutal tearing of flattening flesh underneath tons upon tons of a beautiful, otherwise caring, picture of womanhood. She stood there for an eternity, trying to reason with an arguing child, her shifting weight turning the remains of life underneath her into a very thin paste. After a lengthy argument, she took a step forward. Nothing remained on the floor as her massive shoe eased forward. With each seemingly innocent step towards the exit, a small smudge could be made out as her foot would rise. I followed her out into the mall. The almost inaudible squish slowly faded away as the day went on. Every 15 minutes or so she’d leave a fin, a scale, whatever couldn’t be absorbed into the bottom of her shoe.