Stars of the Shoemaker Page 5
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My feet feel wonderful.
The green and gold sneakers now always on my feet provide an energy I had believed lost to me. Plantar fasciitis no longer longer throbs my heel. I have taken up jogging again now that my sneakers protect me from debilitating shin splints. My sneakers fit perfectly, and I can walk all day without fearing a blister. The sneakers have made me a new man.
The Shoemaker's sneakers have transformed many others since the night Tarence Nelson scored one-hundred and two points in his professional debut basketball game. Aided by a pair of green and gold sneakers, a running back recovered from a torn knee ligament to rush for twenty-two hundred yards in a single season. A house wife from rural Illinois accepted a pair of sneakers the Shoemaker gifted her before dusting off her high school racket and winning the tennis grand slam. Wearing the green and the gold shoes, a sixty-two year old grandfather won three professional triathlons in the course of a year. Champion bicyclists, bowlers and golfers have hoisted trophies while wearing the Shoemaker's sneakers. Nothing remains impossible, and no record is sacred.
And like the Shoemaker said, green and gold sneakers can't be made quickly enough to meet demand.
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Brian S. Wheeler calls Hillsboro, Illinois home, a town of roughly 6,000 in the middle of the flatland. He grew up in Carlyle, Illinois, a community less than an hour away from Hillsboro, where he spent a good amount of his childhood playing wiffle ball and tinkering on his computer. The rural Midwest inspires much of Brian's work, and he hopes any connections readers might make between his fiction and the places and people he has had the pleasure to know are positive.
Brian earned a degree in English from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. He has taught high school English and courses in composition and creative writing. Imagination has been one of Brian's steadfast companions since childhood, and he dreams of creating worlds filled with inspiration and characters touched by magic.
When not writing, Brian does his best to keep organized, to get a little exercise, or to try to train good German Shepherd dogs. He remains an avid reader. More information regarding Brian S. Wheeler, his novels, and his short stories can be found by visiting his website at www.flatlandfiction.com.
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