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  • Living by the wayside and other stories

    Creator:
    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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  • Visible man

    Creator:
    Boisvert, Jon
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    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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    of claws goes limp. And God is in the desert too, watching himself in Michael, whose last name

  • Mirage

    Creator:
    Houghton, Melissa G.
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    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...
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    I‟d make the screen pitch black, Pitch back, I say and you would sing

  • Freeway : poems

    Creator:
    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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    friendship. To my fellow poets, Chris Anderson, Michael Malan, Steve Jones, Peter Sears, and Joseph Ohmann

  • Shrapnel

    Creator:
    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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    hybrid structure was Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. I initially came upon all

  • Home afterwhile

    Creator:
    O'Sullivan, Erin
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    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...
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    , Gene, is taken up right now by his father, Gene. They are both Eugene Michael O’Sullivan. My father

  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    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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    . D Please be advised that an indefinite stay has been applied to your claim benefits pursuant

  • Kiddie pool : stories

    Creator:
    Haskins, Isabelle
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    Kiddie Pool is a collection of eight short stories dealing in general terms with themes of culpability and control. The characters in the stories have their share of problems—car accidents, domestic violence, manic depression, obesity, unexpected deaths, truth or dare, religious crises—but they are resilient souls who keep on keeping...
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    differently. All life. Even insect life. Her older brother Michael, a zoology professor at UCLA, told

  • After we lost the wind

    Creator:
    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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    . A lifetime of thanks to John Michael Palmer and Travis Margoni for helping to keep me alive

  • Outside our periphery

    Creator:
    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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    . Luckily, that was about the time Michael Cunningham came to OSU as part of the Visiting Writer's Series