The plot follows a music producer who sees a pair of sneakers within an adjacent stall within the men's room. Days pass, and the sneakers don't move.
It isn't really the stuff nightmares are constructed with. The moving finger starts off harmless, but was still being able to elicit fear by being so bizarre and unnatural. Here, we just have shoes that wallow in it while bugs pile up. Maybe possess the protagonist toss the shoes mercurial pas cher in the garbage only to ask them to reappear, or have them appear in adjacent stalls it doesn't matter what bathroom he's in. There really must be more here to grab the reader.
I discovered it weird how he immediately jumps to the conclusion that a dead is involved. All he sees are shoes, if there have been a corpse, wouldn't he be able to see ankles or shins?
Apparently , he's half right and it's much more of a spirit than a corpse. This does explain the visibility issue to some extent, although you could say that since he could see the apparition those should have been visible.
You don't really hear about that many haunted bathrooms and also the story does lampshade the unusual setting magista pas cher. I kind of wish more had been done with that as it seems like a more unique plot hook.
I would not go so far as to state that the story is bad. It just didn't bring almost anything to the table. I'd mark it as one of the weaker entries within the collection, but that may just be me.