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- Buck, C. Nathan
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- Always Talk to Strangers contains the first seven chapters to a novel. The novel focuses on the friendship between Amanda and Maria, two fourteen-year-old girls who are experiencing their last summer before high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Their friendship is a complicated one: Maria was kidnapped four years ago, the...
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- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on April 20, 2005. Title: Always Talk to Strangers
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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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- Zellers, Michelle
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- Body of Water is a collection of short fiction about women navigating shifting relationships to their bodies; their bodies of memory and knowledge; their family histories; and their natural and cultural environments. Most of the stories depict girls and women beginning to perceive and push against the bounds of gendered...
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- Zellers for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing on April 27, 2011. Title: Body of
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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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- OF THE THESIS OF Elizabeth Wyckoff for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
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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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- same trees and the marshes and it seemed as though all the voices that mattered in the world were
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- Morrison, Rowan
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- Down the road is a collection of short stories written in the post-Stonewall tradition of gay men's literature, which has focused on works that reflect gay experience and specifically autobiographical fiction; a desire to write for gay readers without having to explain circumstances or points of view to readers unfamiliar...
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- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on April 8, 2004. Title: Down the Road. Abstract
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- 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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- AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Erin O’Sullivan for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative
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- Katz, Tanya
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- 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...
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- teakettle in small circles over an open filter of grounds. “You‟re up,” Margot says, heading straight
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- Ludden, Jason
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- May We All Wake Up One By One is the beginning of a novel set in the West African country of Guinea. The story follows Sean Wake, a twenty-something American who finds himself working for the Feed the World Program as the country falls apart around him. While his co-workers...
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- THESIS OF Jason Ludden for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on April 16
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- Larison, John J.
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- Northwest of Normal is the first part of a novel that takes place along an imaginary Oregon river called the Ipsyniho. The story grows from valley’s fertile loam like a blackberry vine, entangling a group of locals—fly fishing guides and midwives, artists and dope growers—just as a posse of wealthy...
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- , hazelnut orchards, and endless rows of tear shaped Christmas trees lined the road. If he kept heading
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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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- down the spoils out of the trees. “Hey guys! Gypsies!” he cried. “Gypsies in the woods! Mike! Joe
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- Jaramillo, John Paul
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- In 7 composite stories--shifting from the roads of Southern Colorado neighborhoods, the fields and unpaved roads of Northern New Mexico, and the streets of Culver City, California--Penitence follows Relles Ortiz and the bleak peripheral existence of the voiceless suburban people living in disorder and disorientation within the harshness of their...
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- landall spaced in the middle of an abandoned-looking lot, facing simple rows of apple trees and littered
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- Bravo, Simon Gabriel
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- Renovations or “Miracles” is a collection of poetry that exposes the miraculous within the mundane by bearing witness to where we come from and where we are going. Ranging in style from the lyric to the narrative, the personal to the political, these poems explore the relationship between individual and...
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- Port, and a fierce desire to devour. Blossoming in Washington are Japanese cherry trees I
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- Brisker, Kathy Jo
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- In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her horse and fractured her skull, and her beginning attempts at piecing together her fragmented...
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- AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathy Jo Brisker for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in
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- Willis, Stephen E.
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- The thesis is the first third of a novel entitled Steelhead. The story takes place in and around a small southern Oregon town in the summer of 1967. The narrator, eighteen-year-old hot-rodding Emil Reese, discovers hippies swimming naked in the river near his house. The hippies, newly arrived from San...
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- were in the chorus (all the girls and a few smart boys like Eddie) practiced for the Christmas show
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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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- nights, he’d cruise the Strip with his windows down, taking in the exhaust and clamor and pulsing neon
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- Harris, Gregory A.
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- The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
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- world, where the cold still lingered and the trees dripped in darkness along the edge of the river
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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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- sidewalks at the curb, with sidewalks separated from the curb by a planting strip. None of us who live in
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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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- for him, commanded him to strip down, and made him sit in the water. She made him drink a glass
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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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- middle of nowhere. In all directions he could see only trees and he was amazed there could be so much
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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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- . The adjacent strip of land was crammed with auto dealerships flying colored gussets in medieval
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- Baker, Jessica A.
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- This thesis is a work of fiction.
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- stolen from a hotel in Burlington - could he go to hell for that? - Christmas cards from his parents
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- Bluhm, Michael A.
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- 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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- around one another's shoulders, smiling in front of palm trees and a swimming pooi. When Mills asked