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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: left. My little brother Tom liked going to the WBF all through high school, but I’m not sure what

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: boy I loved when I was sixteen years old, and we had met again the previous week at a tag sale, both

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: be heavy like me, but within weeks of Adam Adamsher abductordropping her off on the front steps of

Creator:: Hess, Demian
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the week before we had gotten bowls We had to wait for our allowance or we'd buy more. I got fifty

Creator:: Nadelson, Scott
Abstract:: The six stories in this collection center around an extended Jewish family in the New York Metropolitan area and the curse its members relentlessly wish upon themselves. The protagonist in four of the six stories is Daniel Brickman, younger brother in a very ordinary and chaotic household in suburban New...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by the end of the first week. Reluctantly, I accepted. They'd let me stay in my old room for free

Creator:: Morrison, Rowan
Abstract:: Down the road is a collection of short stories written in the post-Stonewall tradition of gay men's literature, which has focused on works that reflect gay experience and specifically autobiographical fiction; a desire to write for gay readers without having to explain circumstances or points of view to readers unfamiliar...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: remembered the time he'd gotten really, really sick in those piggy-back days. He'd spent several weeks in

Creator:: Henkel, William B.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: west to east and every few weeks she heard a thud, a smash, and went out to find a stunned bird

Creator:: Boothman Duyck, Tracy
Abstract:: The Yogiebogeybox is a novel-in-stories. This novel explores spiritual transcendence and the connection of art to that spiritual journey. A variety of points of view are employed in the narrative in order to depict the journey of the protagonist, Ant Malo, through this journey. Some of the narrative threads are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: was offered by the Off Broadway and the Flat Sundays Writers Groups. The latter was piloted by Tom

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