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  • Night dreamer walks

    Creator:
    Groves, John M. (John Martin)
    Abstract:
    In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story to avenge his father's death during an unusual outbreak of tribal...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John M. Groves for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

  • Outside our periphery

    Creator:
    Sharp, Kimberly A.
    Abstract:
    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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    completed this project. Most of all, though, thanks to John Paul Jaramillo, 'Stine Loughlin, Rowan Morrison

  • On top

    Creator:
    Richter, Amanda M.
    Abstract:
    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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    , Adam Kroll, John Larison, and Stephanie Wisniewski. And to Logan Cannon, for your shameless devotion

  • Stillness

    Creator:
    Lont, Steven
    Abstract:
    This collection of stories explores moments of stillness in human relationships: moments during an argument when there is nothing to say, moments of quiet contemplation which precedes inevitable--and often unwelcome--life changes, moments of frustration, confusion, despair, and grace. In the chaotic lives of these characters, stillness is neither tranquil nor...
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    him away. But until that June, Daddy, Mom, and I were all togetherthere in that house with the rumble

  • Wild west love songs

    Creator:
    Hinderliter, Robert
    Abstract:
    The eight stories in Wild West Love Songs explore issues such as loss, suffering, and betrayal, but perhaps the most consistent theme is the examination of the ways we are haunted by our past. All the protagonists in these stories are haunted. Sometimes they are haunted literally, by a ghost...
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  • The dry country

    Creator:
    Van Handel, Lucinda S.
    Abstract:
    Set in the dryland farming country of Eastern Oregon in the late 1950's, this novel follows a year and a half in the life of a young girl as she comes of age. A water rights dispute, the plight of nearby ranchers, disappointments in her own family and a harrowing...
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