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    Creator:
    Richter, Amanda M.
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    This collection of stories spans a range of content: the personal, the domestic, the political, and the downright terrifying. In “Ilka the Flyer,” a young man is faced with his own crisis and that of his veteran uncle. Sister relationships bloom and fade as the entire family deals with changes...
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  • Something mortal I could fall upon

    Creator:
    Roush, Stephanie Rae
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    Something Mortal I Could Fall Upon is a collection of poetry exploring geographical, emotional, and cerebral permutations of home. These poems ask: What is home? What does it mean to give up a place? How does, or can, one rebuild the home? Although it is clear the speaker loves the...
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    also extend my gratitude to David Biespiel and all the English Department faculty who have influenced

  • Renovations or "Miracles"

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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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    thanks to Dr. H., the best they is. The best they is. To David K. for lighting the fire. Unending

  • Down the Road

    Creator:
    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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    skin and seemed to catch in the crisp oranging leaves of the elms as if they were made of stained

  • Always talk to strangers

    Creator:
    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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    ; David at Exclusive; Big Bill; P-P Hartnett; Stephen Chbosky; the crews at ICW, UCP, UBS for Kids, ILL

  • 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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    they are, it only makes sense for him to sit where there’s more floor-space.” “I’m freakish,” David

  • A fool's marathon

    Creator:
    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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  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    Casas, Ruben
    Abstract:
    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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  • Can you see me?

    Creator:
    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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  • Things I lost in Istanbul

    Creator:
    Bush, H. Takken
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    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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