Publisher's Synopsis
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 trying to understand their own hearts. Among the characters: A young psychologist makes an unsettling choice after a disputed adoption. A best friend's amnesia opens an anxious woman to living in the present. A lonely man tries to photograph the ultimate flirtatious look. An alienated young college student bares her soul to a manipulative prisoner. An unfaithful professor is tormented by the actions of a doppelgänger. A poet faces a distortion of the past and its hold 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 keen psychological eye 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.
