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  • The magnitiseur and other stories

    Creator:
    van Belle, Christine E.
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    This thesis is a collection of three short stories and the beginnings of a novel. A similar thread is woven through all the stories: in the attempt to know spiritual truth, what it is to be a woman, and to know themselves, the various protagonists precariously oscillate between the seemingly...
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    Verna," I say when I hand him the phone. After my sisters have snatched two or three, I bring out

  • Elementary Music

    Creator:
    Treat, Tanya
    Abstract:
    The four stories and one essay within are linked by themes: love, sex, truth, and music. Three of the stories are told by first person narrators who are also musicians. In "Elementary Music," a young girl views her parents' divorce through the lens of an orchestra concert in which she...
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    raises and days off when they asked him; he took in his sister-in-law and her three children when Claire

  • The Orient King, and other stories

    Creator:
    Hess, Demian
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    These six stories represent a child's search for identity. The first story, "Road Map," is intended to be independent from the other pieces in this collection, but has been included because it is clearly set in the same place and explores many of the same themes of the other pieces....
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    their identities based on three major factors: race, community, and family. With a Chinese- American

  • Home afterwhile

    Creator:
    O'Sullivan, Erin
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    Home Afterwhile, a collection of eight short stories and an essay, explores issues of family and maturation from the landscapes of the Midwest. Generations are connected through a sense of place—from small cornfield towns to Chicago and its suburbs—as well as through what gets retold and what goes unspoken. Characters...
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    , who, in many ways, started this all. Thanks to my sister, who always keeps me laughing. And a very

  • Half-life : essays

    Creator:
    Fath, Lauren
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    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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    North Seminary. But I’d never done it as a visitor, a stranger. I looked up at the three-story

  • The Night Before the Elections and other stories

    Creator:
    Clarke, Patrick J.
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    The stories here are stories of childhood. To me, they concern the shift between dependence to independence, comfort to instability, which is disastrous for the characters but also a point of awakening. The move from childhood to adulthood puts the characters in a world that is neither made for the...
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    piano and played for three hours, slowly building back my finger strength and grinding each measure of

  • Fallow

    Creator:
    Lutz, Kevin W.
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    Fallow is a creative non-fiction book of memory and place. It chronicles the lives of William and Vera Lutz and their lives of struggle on the Northern Plains of North Dakota. It follows a narrator and his attempts to make sense of, and connect to their, lives following both of...
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    century ago, Jacob stood on this very plain of Buffalo Grass and crumbling soil, three young sons in tow

  • Always talk to strangers

    Creator:
    Buck, C. Nathan
    Abstract:
    Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
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    lots of spiders, about three miles from Maria's house in 11 Shorewood, one of the most expensive

  • The Andy Stories

    Creator:
    Henkel, William B.
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    The four stories within, "Jim of India," "Shooting the Breeze," "Bridge," and "Point Reyes," are part of a longer work in progress, tentatively titled The Andy Stories. The stories follow Andy, a woman in her 50s, on a voyage across the continent and into herself. Of these, all are written...
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    , flattened and sucked of energy. Here the air pulled life into three dimensions, straightening her back

  • Commercial

    Creator:
    Aguilar, Joseph R.
    Abstract:
    This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
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    high, often taupe or beige, but sometimes, for a wacky twist, forest green. Dad’s is taupe. Three