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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:: drifts across the sun and the lawn turns dark. In the distance a bird squawks. Rooster? Well, no

Creator:: Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
Abstract:: Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: watched her mother stare blankly at the ceiling, her wrinkled mouth caving in, pointy chin poking out

Creator:: O'Sullivan, Erin
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: legs up to her chest now, buckled her arms around them, and rested her chin on her knee, eyes

Creator:: Richter, Amanda M.
Abstract:: This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: lay on his front lawn on his belly, facing our house, hands tucked under his chin. Mom, Dad, and

Creator:: Houghton, Melissa G.
Abstract:: This collection of poems spans a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding identity, perception, and the relationship between the self and other. The collection consists of four parts. Parts I and IV explore the self and other by using personal experience and persona. Part II...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: say hey!, another name for sun. Later, I glance down through the windows at you. Your students

Creator:: Katz, Tanya
Abstract:: This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach, a redemptive novel about a horrific event. The book chronicles the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in which Jay and Margot lose two of their three children while vacationing at the beach. Jay is a pediatric heart surgeon already highly...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the street at this hour, and hardly anyone on the street at any hour. Oh, sure, as the sun came up

Creator:: Martens, Jacob L.
Abstract:: These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the fall, or if knowing, not caring. Their job for now is to gather the heat of the sun, turn it

Creator:: Carpenter, Claire
Abstract:: These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life is rocked by a visit from an old friend who has changed in unexpected ways....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the sun-drenched patio somehow wasn’t too warm. Even the water tasted so good, like the water

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