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  • Winter ocean

    Creator:
    Baker, Jessica A.
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    This thesis is a work of fiction.
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    start cooking. Ryan picked up the phone and dialed. "Great Flying Pizza," said a young woman, "This is

  • Visible man

    Creator:
    Boisvert, Jon
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    This collection of poems discusses the human body, the desires to have control over that body, and the memories contained within. In some poems, the body is overt; in others, the probing spills from man into the animal world, and even poems that depict landscape often do so in bodily...
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    , and begins the first story. Her brother, when they were young, caught a crow with a homemade trap

  • Ms. Miles is missing

    Creator:
    Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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    Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
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    purple shawl not looking so young at all, and didn’t cry once that day.” Santi grabbed Martha’s arm

  • After we lost the wind

    Creator:
    Watterson, Jaclyn
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    My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
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    family, she can see a wistful expression, her grandmother imagining, even so young, that she’d one day

  • The folklore of daughters

    Creator:
    Bremicker, Heather
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    This collection of poems and essays is about the folklore of family and the shadowy imprint family myth can leave on its members. At the center of the argument is a struggle about coming to terms with these shadows from a speaker trying to find a sense of a self...
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    loud. Even at a very young age we are self-conscious about loving ourselves in front of others, even

  • Half-life : essays

    Creator:
    Fath, Lauren
    Abstract:
    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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    for his contributions as a reader; Ryan Scammell for his insights on craft; Ann Hagedorn for pointing

  • Home afterwhile

    Creator:
    O'Sullivan, Erin
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    Home Afterwhile, a collection of eight short stories and an essay, explores issues of family and maturation from the landscapes of the Midwest. Generations are connected through a sense of place—from small cornfield towns to Chicago and its suburbs—as well as through what gets retold and what goes unspoken. Characters...
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    mother’s sister; I knew her when I was young, before 3 my own sister was born. At restaurants, she