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  • Things I lost in Istanbul

    Creator:
    Bush, H. Takken
    Abstract:
    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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF H. Takken Bush for the degree of

  • Beneath this roof : stories

    Creator:
    Carpenter, Claire
    Abstract:
    These stories follow the lives of women in a variety of roles—housewife, deli employee, artist, bird keeper, and sitter for the elderly—and at different stages of life. In “Beneath this Roof,” a young housewife’s life is rocked by a visit from an old friend who has changed in unexpected ways....
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    ways. “Semantics (n. pl.)” follows a sixty-two-year old widow in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Her

  • The spillways

    Creator:
    Rasmussen, Kimberly Ann
    Abstract:
    The Spillways is a collection of poetry investigating a wide range of themes: identity, memory, loss, illness, labor, suffering, and grief. At times, the poems investigate place−in the physical and natural world−as a driving force of the speaker's identity. Many of the poems also consider the role of work and...
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    ? 8 H A N D F I S H I N G that photograph of us hues of browns yellowed by the years we didn’t know

  • The Yogiebogeybox

    Creator:
    Boothman Duyck, Tracy
    Abstract:
    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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  • The athlete and two stories

    Creator:
    McDonnell, Peter A.
    Abstract:
    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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  • Many sparrows

    Creator:
    Gustie, Michael J.
    Abstract:
    This collection of poetry explores faith and isolation while questioning the ability of language to adequately express subjective experience. Gustie has provided a deeply contemplative, though rarely completely serious, romp through the lives of others who, ultimately, are reflections of the self. The three sections of the collection establish a...
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    blood down the drain when his lawyer called. He was to have a closed coffi n viewing. in St

  • Freeway : poems

    Creator:
    Dickey, Eric Wayne
    Abstract:
    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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    . F says fuck it, let’s go bowling. G says the goon had it coming. H doesn’t know how anybody

  • Patoka : four stories of Southern Indiana

    Creator:
    Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
    Abstract:
    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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  • The wish list of Arturo Chan

    Creator:
    Shum, Michael Shou-Yung
    Abstract:
    This collection of loosely-linked stories explores the lives of a set of characters who exist in the margins of society, but quietly so. In the opening story, "Two-Minute Histories," an ostensibly negative act—breaking and entering, among other verifiable crimes—is demonstrated to lead to some positive outcome such as a moment...
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  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
    Abstract:
    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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    whatever they wanted or in pursuit of it. At Ha Chee Grocery 'N' Deli, Ian slid his Visa debit card from