Red Barn People

About Heart-Shaped Box: Stories by Hunter Liguore Stories are like friends. We tell them to keep a part of us alive. We need them to move past our own obstacles, to answer questions about ourselves that we are afraid to ask, and to heal and learn. We also read to escape the ordinary, if only for a time. Most of the stories in Heart-Shaped Box will take you out of the ordinary, and deal in some way with the fantastical, the far-far reaches of the normal universe. A few of the people you’ll meet in this collection are: a forty-year old city man having a mid-life crisis, who turns to wizardry as a profession; a woman led by her father to believe her mother was abducted by aliens; a lawyer seeking to redeem himself by representing a wife accused of poising her husband; an average Joe who sees himselfâ€"literally; a British scholar who dares enter the mysterious Mayan temple, despite the fact no one has ever entered and left alive. And more. (This edition also contains the controversial piece, “Maple Street, 1966.” One editor didn’t dare to publish it, while another did. You decide if it’s too risky.)