The One-Shoe Empire
Read the storyNew regulations regarding sportswear have been imposed on every women's sport: every female athlete is required to have one bare foot while the other remains shod; furthermore, the stands must be empty and the playing fields small. This was decreed by a billionaire artist who took over women's sports to realize her own twisted vision—driven by the fact that she herself wears only one shoe to show off her bare foot and the foot-care products she markets. Her corporations, which specialize in women's foot care, seized control of the sport, offering female athletes high salaries—which they accepted—in exchange for competing in just one shoe.