The Walk Through Life

Part 1.

There was a flash of red swirling toward the shower drain.

"What is that?" Emilio wondered.

Stella reached to pick it up. It was a toenail. Her toenail. She reached to the ends of her feet and realized that all her toenails were gone. She let her hand rest on the bottom of the tub and lifted it to reveal a handful of toenails - piled rather high.

"For some reason I can't seem to keep these things on. Well. We'll just have to give them to Pat. Pat will know what to do with them."

Part 2.

It was very grey, cloudy, and cold.

"Is this the prairie?" he asked.

"Yes," she said.