Amanda stopped her writing and looked at the bed: the bright-red nylon stockings, white garter belt, shiny almost metallic looking black panties, the long multi-coloured floral skirt, pink silk blouse, beige lacy bra—the clothing lying there like a tame but colourful menagerie of wrinkled, exhausted animals. Next to the bed, the shoes, off-white and not matching the skirt or stockings, the highest heels she could possibly walk in, like two tiny confused space aliens on stilts.
Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has published a poetry collection, An Affection for Precipices (Serengeti Press, 2006), nine short story collections—The Apostate's Tattoo (Ragweed Press, 1983), Forms of Captivity and Escape (Thistledown Press, 1988), Unmapped Dreams (Crossed Keys Publishing, 1989), The Miraculous Hand and Other Stories (Ragweed Press, 1991), Dancing at the Club Holocaust (Ragweed Press, 1993), Disturbing Identities (Ekstasis Editions, 1997), Should the Word Hell Be Capitalized? (Gaspereau Press, 1999), Anton Chekhov Was Never in Charlottetown (Gaspereau Press, 2000).