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  • Fortunate son

    Creator:
    Bernard, Sean
    Abstract:
    The narrator of Fortunate Son is Jake, a 21 year-old who has recently arrived in Tucson, Arizona, after the death of his mother. He's spent his entire life on the road with his mother, possibly followed and antagonized by his father, whom Jake has never seen. He has come to...
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    with his only relative (aside from his father), a great-aunt Rosie, the owner of a trailer park. Jake

  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
    Abstract:
    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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    college, she already feels burned-out from an ill- fated career in social work -- but soon discovers that

  • The athlete and two stories

    Creator:
    McDonnell, Peter A.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this document is to display a portion of the work I have completed over the last two years. The Athlete is the recently written opening to a novel of the same name. I've decided not to excerpt a longer section of the novel because the novel isn't...
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    Skinker Boulevard that overlooks Forest Park, the museum, the ornate marble buildings from the 1904

  • Scenes from the Tarot

    Creator:
    Stephens, Nia C.
    Abstract:
    Scenes from the Tarot is a novella that explores the desire to control time. The narrator, Truth Aiken, spurred by fear of her own death, recounts the story of her sister Beauty's death and its effects on Truth's highly unusual family. Proceeding backwards through time, Truth describes her tumultuous relationships...
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    lots of trouble. We often say that if she doesn't change sometime soon I'll be teaching her literature

  • Kiddie pool : stories

    Creator:
    Haskins, Isabelle
    Abstract:
    Kiddie Pool is a collection of eight short stories dealing in general terms with themes of culpability and control. The characters in the stories have their share of problems—car accidents, domestic violence, manic depression, obesity, unexpected deaths, truth or dare, religious crises—but they are resilient souls who keep on keeping...
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    guard, the semi driver doesn’t have time to swerve and soon enough Jeremy is even with him, raising

  • Chazzonos

    Creator:
    Rockler, Lyle
    Abstract:
    Chazzonos, as presented here for my thesis, represents three chapters of what will be a novel of the same name. Chazzonos is about Hal Perlmutter, a cantor, who at the outset of the novel, is resigning his position of twenty years. The novel progresses as Hal decides where he will...
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    yet." "Did you put the letter in Fred's box?" "I did. I'm soon the ex-cantor." "Not until August

  • Double exposure

    Creator:
    Raleigh, Elisabeth A.
    Abstract:
    DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a novel concerned with the phenomenon of memory. The story explores such questions as: To what extent does "memory" (and the narratives we construct from it) explain who we are? How is memory influenced by others-and does it matter if it is? Can a memory that is...
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    forgotten all about that park. Soon orchards were flickering by, dense rows strobing past at a dizzying

  • b

    Creator:
    Oleson, Wendy E.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is the first third of a coming of age novel called i. In this selection the central character, Bea Bouvier, prepares to see her estranged mother on a cruise ship to the Bahamas. She hopes her parents will decide to reunite as a family, though it becomes increasingly...
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    hanging out the side, but my father, never completely comfortable in his body, soon cramped in the

  • Circles in the sand

    Creator:
    Amsk, Allyn W.
    Abstract:
    The creative writing project Circles in the Sand began as a collection of interrelated short stories but is now the three opening chapters of a novel, a chapter and an early draft of what was originally the ending to a novella, and one short story. The landscape is the upper...
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    dad for moving him away from his friends, but he soon adjusted to the new school and came to accept

  • Stillness

    Creator:
    Lont, Steven
    Abstract:
    This collection of stories explores moments of stillness in human relationships: moments during an argument when there is nothing to say, moments of quiet contemplation which precedes inevitable--and often unwelcome--life changes, moments of frustration, confusion, despair, and grace. In the chaotic lives of these characters, stillness is neither tranquil nor...
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    Bobby was getting cold. He'd come to the park after watching some after-school cartoons, eating