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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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  • The mercurial : stories and essays

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    Dmitriev, Vladena Aleksandra
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    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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  • 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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    . dedicated to the memory of my brother, James David Dickey who, like my father, still teaches me

  • 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

  • The practice of home

    Creator:
    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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  • Scenes from the Tarot

    Creator:
    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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    marry. We were married by a high priestess, known to Laurel and David, but not to me. She was old when

  • 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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  • The Gospel : according to Matt

    Creator:
    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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    ." Silence. "Cousin of David." "Elkannah!" someone shouted. There were always kids who were desperate to

  • 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

  • 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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