Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v6n2/fiction/mccorkle_j/going_shoes.htm
I have a friend who writes a blog called Too Many Shoes. I thought of her when I read the first story in this collection of short stories. The mother has a closet full of dyed-to-match shoes including a pair that matched the going away dress at her wedding. She wants to be buried in them. What's not to love? The stories just get better and better.
