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Creator:: Bush, H. Takken
Abstract:: This thesis is the first half of a novel in progress called Things I Lost In Istanbul. In the selection, Simon Wells, an American expat living in Turkey, is trying to ignore the changes taking place in his life and in Istanbul--his adopted home and sanctuary. The novel tracks Simon's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF H. Takken Bush for the degree of

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:: ways. “Semantics (n. pl.)” follows a sixty-two-year old widow in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Her

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

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Gustie, Michael J.
Abstract:: This collection of poetry explores faith and isolation while questioning the ability of language to adequately express subjective experience. Gustie has provided a deeply contemplative, though rarely completely serious, romp through the lives of others who, ultimately, are reflections of the self. The three sections of the collection establish a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Dickey, Eric Wayne
Abstract:: This collection of poems focuses on a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding driving, cars and independence, as well as masculinity, fatherhood, domesticity and parental identity. The collection consists of three parts, Freeway, Menace, and Control. Freeway contains poems on driving and cars, some of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . F says fuck it, let’s go bowling. G says the goon had it coming. H doesn’t know how anybody

Creator:: Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
Abstract:: These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
Abstract:: Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: whatever they wanted or in pursuit of it. At Ha Chee Grocery 'N' Deli, Ian slid his Visa debit card from

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