The absurdity and mystery continue with "Missing Heels, " in which a mail-order bride arrives in a strangetown and starts living at the house of a husband she only sees in her dreams.
Suchen thought of Walter wandering the strangetown, searching for a friendly face on a restaurant patio or a hotel balcony, and tried to convince herself that she had agreed to the coffee because of the helplessness that an old man could not erase from his face.