The Boxes We Carry
Three Novellas
by F.C. Shultz
She pointed to a corner of the box. “Is this a dragon?”
—from The Mystery at Pancake Shores
How can a person live in a box under the dirt?
—from Rosalie and the Everlasting Man
“I already lost Danny. I couldn’t afford to lose that box, too.”
—from I’m Going Now
The Boxes We Carry contains three novellas:
The Mystery at Pancake Shores
slow burn beach mystery set in the northeast in 1958
Rosalie and The Everlasting Man
a short fiction about a man trapped in a glass box for centuries, and the woman fighting to free him.
I’m Going Now
A feel-good frontier novella about friendship, family, and a lick of good fortune.
GENRE
Beach Read, Action/Adventure,
YA Magical Realism
PAGE COUNT
288
PAPERBACK DIMENSIONS
5 x 0.72 x 8 inches
ISBN-13
979-8993030739
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Boxes We Carry contains three novellas of varying genres. Two stories (The Mystery at Pancake Shores and Rosalie and The Everlasting Man) are YA Magical Realism, and the third (I’m Going Now) is a coming of age, feel-good, frontier story.
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Yes! The novellas have been published individually 2018, 2021, and 2025. This is the first time they have been collected into one volume (and the previous editions have been discontinued).
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This book is aimed at an upper middle grade/YA audience.
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Yes, all my books are clean in the sense that there is nothing gratuitous (violent for the sake of being violent) and nothing without consequence. That being said, for younger readers, there are themes of bullying, prejudice, and stereotyping.
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One of my goals with writing and publishing books has always been to make my books accessible, which is why I’ve tried to priceThe Boxes We Carry in a way that makes sense.
I’m a fellow reader, and love switching between physical and digital mediums when reading a novel.
With that in mind, I’ve priced The Boxes We Carry so you can get paperback and kindle versions for $16 total (paperback is $12; kindle is $3.99).
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Audiobook coming soon!