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- Oleson, Wendy E.
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- This thesis is the first third of a coming of age novel called i. In this selection the central character, Bea Bouvier, prepares to see her estranged mother on a cruise ship to the Bahamas. She hopes her parents will decide to reunite as a family, though it becomes increasingly...
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- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on May 3, 2006. Title: b Abstract approved: Tracy
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- Stephens, Nia C.
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- Scenes from the Tarot is a novella that explores the desire to control time. The narrator, Truth Aiken, spurred by fear of her own death, recounts the story of her sister Beauty's death and its effects on Truth's highly unusual family. Proceeding backwards through time, Truth describes her tumultuous relationships...
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- backwards through time, Truth describes her tumultuous relationships with sisters and brother, her husband
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- deTal, Vicki
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- In this collection of linked stories, four characters navigate space between selves they’ve been and those to come. Alice must invent an autonomous identity after her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a violinist, and a clarinetist emerge at...
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- her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a
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- Boothman Duyck, Tracy
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- 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...
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- signature below authorizes release ofmy thesis to any reader upon request. Tracy B hman Duyck, Author
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- Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
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- 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...
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- into him.” It is not simply the fact that her husband will die that is hurting her, but that she is
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- Watterson, Jaclyn
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- My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
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- -narrative. But to me, narrative is not about moving from point A to point B, or even from point A to
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- Dickey, Eric Wayne
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- 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...
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- . “The Tree Climber’s Husband.” Third Place winner in their annual competition
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- Miftaraj, Andre M.
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- 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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- power of male and female relationships on the psyche. "By this Gospel..." and "B b" speculate about the
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- Casas, Ruben
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- Modern Apostles actively attempts to blur the line between academic scholarship and narrative fiction for the purpose of satirizing the social and the political assumptions of its contemporary moment. By appropriating the loudest voices in dominant American culture, the inter-textual narratives (1) call attention to the voices that go unheard,...
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- assumptions, namely a hetero-normative one which imagines the collector as a widow whose husband has died
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- Goodrich, Charles
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- If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
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- the limbs of our cherry tree) to ravage the shores of Cassiopeia's country. Her husband, King
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- 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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- daydream—I heard my mom on the phone: “Can you page my husband? I think he’s there. Yeah, last name’s
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- Weber, Joshua D.
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- The Gospel: According to Matt is a novel, told in the first person, simple past tense, depicting the struggle of a young man attempting to make sense of his relationship with his estranged father as he wrestles with a growing crisis of faith. Matt is deeply sincere in his desire...
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- that the pastor of our church, Reverend Randolph William (Willy) Allen guided my mother toward. The
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- McDonnell, Peter A.
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- 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...
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- woman from the wealthy family in Minneapolis who left her husband for a root farmer? "Because of the
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- Buchanan, Sherry
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- Living by the Wayside and Other Stories explores the tension between control and dependence and how that tension affects the ability to sustain intimate relationships. These are stories about women who struggle for independence, but experience the cost of self-rule as isolation. Living by the Wayside and Other Stories focuses...
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- wife Frankie, my brother Ray and his wife Mandee, my husband Tekoah and his parents, Neil and Barbara
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- Groves, John M. (John Martin)
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- In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story to avenge his father's death during an unusual outbreak of tribal...
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- husband. Women sat with women, men with men. She smiled and urged Night with hands held out. He didn’t
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- Wyckoff, Elizabeth
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- In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and...
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- Starr, Peter W.
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- The purpose of this thesis was to create a sustained piece of fiction that both represented my growth as a writer throughout my time at Oregon State University, and wove together a mixture of imagination, language, and creativity. My hope was to write a novella that incorporated and drew from...
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- Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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- 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...
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- Christopher’s telemarketing papers slid weakly along the floor. “Cheated on by your husband,” she whispered
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- Mercer, Jacob Ian
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- The Fifth Floor and Other Stories is a short-story collection about missed connection and exposure—about lonely men in specific places.
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- aside from a B+ in AP Calculus—they didn’t nag him much. They’d say things like, “Fine! Eat
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- Millet, Terrance Lane
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- This thesis, a collection of short fiction, attempts to surface some of the discrepancy between inner and outer lives, between who these characters want to be and who they've become, between the lives they might have had and those they've chosen because the former are too chancy and the latter...
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- Martens, Jacob L.
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- 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...
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- bed frame that he chopped up, had my sister's new husband weld together. Then he lined it with high
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- Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
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- 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...
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- DeTal, Trev
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- "A Fool's Marathon" is a fabulist novel exploring themes of Platonic love, imagination and its relationship to reality, and psychological coming of age through the exploits of a young Oscar Duplenty. The work-in-progress is presented in two sections: the first a contiguous five chapters from the beginning of the newest...
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- inside, or a just-arrived boarder. She'd have a husband out of town, or a pistol in the bedside table
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- Kroll, Adam L.
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- This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these...
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- Baumer, Christopher
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- Shrapnel is an exploration through memory. It’s a work that bends and twists upon itself and, as memory often does, lands within worlds and experiences only for a moment before jumping to the next story or thought. This text is a hybrid work that doesn’t fit neatly within any specific...
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- , trace the roads with your finger, get from base A to base B with all of your limbs. Run a spare dog
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- Sharp, Kimberly A.
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- The characters in each of these pieces exist outside the periphery of the so-called norm. In "Through Parted Curtains," "What They Do Besides Eat," and "Two Lambs," June wishes to enter the adult world that tends to exclude her (though she will only enter conditionally). June is, of course, about...
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