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How The Heart Finds Its Form: Stories
How The Heart Finds Its Form: Stories
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Twelve psychologically-oriented stories explore the choices, doubts, wishes and secrets of the human heart. In a range of story tones, from suspenseful to comical to emotionally-wrenching, men and women grapple with questions of love, attachment, flirtation, memory, anxiety, truthfulness, grief and the courage to live fully from the heart.
How The Heart Finds Its Form is a collection of contemporary American short stories exploring the emotional and psychological lives of men and women. The stories follow intriguing characters who try to understand their own hearts and find the courage to live from the heart. Among the characters:
A young psychologist questions his actions in a disputed adoption.
An anxious woman struggles to cope with her best friend's amnesia.
A lonely man tries to photograph the ultimate flirtatious look.
An alienated young college student writes to a manipulative prisoner.
An unfaithful professor is tormented by a doppelgänger.
A poet faces a distortion of the past and its power over him.
A wife fears that she may not really know her off-kilter husband.
Two witnesses to a trauma cling to each other seeking release.
For his first collection of short fiction, Ned W. Schultz brings a background as a psychology professor to the lives of his characters. How they face their inner questions and discover the courage to follow their hearts – these are the rich and thought-provoking themes of How The Heart Finds Its Form. The twelve stories include:
In The Case of Baby Girl V
In The Morning
Nine Lessons About Looking
Broken Pitcher
A Breath Proceeding From The Mouth
Cave Of Machines
Wanted
In The Night Of The Fire Showers
One Big Family
Poem For A Rainy Evening
Backwards Day
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How The Heart Finds Its Form is a collection of contemporary American short stories exploring the emotional and psychological lives of men and women. The stories follow intriguing characters who try to understand their own hearts and find the courage to live from the heart. Among the characters:
A young psychologist questions his actions in a disputed adoption.
An anxious woman struggles to cope with her best friend's amnesia.
A lonely man tries to photograph the ultimate flirtatious look.
An alienated young college student writes to a manipulative prisoner.
An unfaithful professor is tormented by a doppelgänger.
A poet faces a distortion of the past and its power over him.
A wife fears that she may not really know her off-kilter husband.
Two witnesses to a trauma cling to each other seeking release.
For his first collection of short fiction, Ned W. Schultz brings a background as a psychology professor to the lives of his characters. How they face their inner questions and discover the courage to follow their hearts – these are the rich and thought-provoking themes of How The Heart Finds Its Form. The twelve stories include:
In The Case of Baby Girl V
In The Morning
Nine Lessons About Looking
Broken Pitcher
A Breath Proceeding From The Mouth
Cave Of Machines
Wanted
In The Night Of The Fire Showers
One Big Family
Poem For A Rainy Evening
Backwards Day
Shot
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