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"Billy's Box" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. Card originally published this story in the February 1978 issue of Friend magazine under the pseudonym Byron Walley.
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This story is about a little boy named Billy. When a new television set arrives a Billy’s house he decides that playing with the box it came in would be more fun than watching the TV. With the help of his imagination and his loving parents he turns the box into a store, a castle and a repair shop. When Billy goes to bed he thinks about how much fun it will be to turn the box into a zoo in the morning, if only he can find a tiger.
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- Billy – Main character
- Billy’s Dad - unnamed
- Billy’s Mom - unnamed
- Annie - Billy’s sister
- Todd - Billy’s brother
- Dora - Billy’s sister
[edit] Byron Walley
In the Question and Answer section of his website Orson Scott Card said that the first time he used the name Byron Walley was when he published the short story "Gert Fram" in Ensign magazine. Card did this because he had a non-fiction article “Family Art”, a poem “Looking West” and a short play "The Rag Mission" (published under the name Brian Green) appearing in the same issue.[1]
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