“The Dame with the Boots” in The Sidewalk Diverges
I can always remember where I got my weirdest ideas, and it’s almost always that someone misread, misheard, or misinterpreted something. “The Dame with the Boots” was definitely one of these cases. I think it was something about a pool shark, and for whatever reason, I pictured an actual shark playing pool, and somehow, that morphed into a shark PI, who instantly became the main character of a short story. It’s absolutely got the noir vibes you might expect from a PI story, but it’s also surreal and weird with an entire society underwater where humans can breathe and walk around normally, while the shark PI has options of walking or swimming. No explanations needed, really.
You can find “The Dame with the Boots” exclusively in The Sidewalk Diverges!
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