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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Michael Shou-Yung Shum for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on April 27

Creator:: Houghton, Melissa G.
Abstract:: This collection of poems spans a range of content. They pose many questions that consider issues surrounding identity, perception, and the relationship between the self and other. The collection consists of four parts. Parts I and IV explore the self and other by using personal experience and persona. Part II...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa G. Houghton for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in

Creator:: Buchanan, Sherry
Abstract:: Living by the Wayside and Other Stories explores the tension between control and dependence and how that tension affects the ability to sustain intimate relationships. These are stories about women who struggle for independence, but experience the cost of self-rule as isolation. Living by the Wayside and Other Stories focuses...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . “Who’d like to ask the blessing?” she said, looking around the table. “Michael?” I hated praying

Creator:: Zellers, Michelle
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and high back like that and boy shorts. You’d have to pair that top with a G-string or something

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: friendship. To my fellow poets, Chris Anderson, Michael Malan, Steve Jones, Peter Sears, and Joseph Ohmann

Creator:: Starr, Peter W.
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis was to create a sustained piece of fiction that both represented my growth as a writer throughout my time at Oregon State University, and wove together a mixture of imagination, language, and creativity. My hope was to write a novella that incorporated and drew from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: teachers of writing, and to Sarah Kovatch, Michael Bluhm, and everyone else in the creative writing

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