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  • You stay here

    Creator:
    Bluhm, Michael A.
    Abstract:
    You Stay Here is the beginning of a novel that centers on the notion of family, community, and the expectations that drive our interactions within these circles. The novel tells the story of brothers Mills and Nance O'Malley as they interact with their parents, Richard and Margaret. The brothers own...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Wild west love songs

    Creator:
    Hinderliter, Robert
    Abstract:
    The eight stories in Wild West Love Songs explore issues such as loss, suffering, and betrayal, but perhaps the most consistent theme is the examination of the ways we are haunted by our past. All the protagonists in these stories are haunted. Sometimes they are haunted literally, by a ghost...
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    Masters Thesis

  • West of Ellis

    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

  • Visible man

    Creator:
    Boisvert, Jon
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems discusses the human body, the desires to have control over that body, and the memories contained within. In some poems, the body is overt; in others, the probing spills from man into the animal world, and even poems that depict landscape often do so in bodily...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Things I lost in Istanbul

    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...
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    Masters Thesis

  • There were bears and rumors of bears

    Creator:
    Miftaraj, Andre M.
    Abstract:
    There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Yogiebogeybox

    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

  • The wish list of Arturo Chan

    Creator:
    Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
    Abstract:
    This collection of loosely-linked stories explores the lives of a set of characters who exist in the margins of society, but quietly so. In the opening story, "Two-Minute Histories," an ostensibly negative act—breaking and entering, among other verifiable crimes—is demonstrated to lead to some positive outcome such as a moment...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The skipping stone

    Creator:
    Peacock, Jonathan Austin
    Abstract:
    The Skipping Stone is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: self-displacement, southern heritage, identity of the Self, loss, and grief. At times, the poems confess a kind of anxiety associated with experiencing the death of loved ones, acting as a coping mechanism for loss and self-exploration....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The mercurial : stories and essays

    Creator:
    Dmitriev, Vladena Aleksandra
    Abstract:
    Vladena Aleksandra Dmitriev, in her collection of fiction and nonfiction The Mercurial: Stories and Essays, examines the conflicts inherent in language, whether in her own experiences as a non-English speaking immigrant from the Soviet Union to the submersed anger and resentment that emerges quietly in disintegrating relationships. What unites these...
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    Masters Thesis