A couple of weeks ago the Library of America featured A Box to Hide In by James Thurber. Since then it has been reviewed by two Short Story Monday participants, so I had to jump on in myself. LOL!
It’s a simple story the unknown narrator goes from grocery store to grocery store and other places asking if they have a box big enough for him to hide in.
“It’s a form of escape”, I told him. “Hiding in a box, it circumscribes your worries and the range of your anguish. You don’t see people, either”.“How in the hell do you eat when you’re in this box?”, asked the grocer.”
I can certainly relate to wanting a place to hide. When I was going through a severe depression some years ago I hid in bed as best I could. Although my husband would come home from work and get me to eat dinner and watch some TV. Boy is he a wonderful man, the way he helped me through it! I took a long time but then I got back into the land of the living.
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