Unearthed from the bizarre and often visited but rarely (if ever) understood landscape between love and loss, life and death, "Relic of a Heart" reveals itself to readers as a small collection of poems, short stories, random thoughts with images of etchings, drawings, and salt prints.

Upon closer inspection of this relic, one will find emotionally charged characters living through scenarios far from mundane and describing experiences surreal and dreamlike. A young woman steals milk from her neighbor's porch daily and notices, on each following morning, that the house has grown bigger for...