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  • Headwater

    Creator:
    Martens, Jacob L.
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    These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jacob L Martens for the degree of

  • 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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    my twentieth birthday, now nine days past, my husband gave me a young Irish Wolthound that matches

  • Steelhead

    Creator:
    Willis, Stephen E.
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    The thesis is the first third of a novel entitled Steelhead. The story takes place in and around a small southern Oregon town in the summer of 1967. The narrator, eighteen-year-old hot-rodding Emil Reese, discovers hippies swimming naked in the river near his house. The hippies, newly arrived from San...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen E. Willis for the degree

  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
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    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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    different walks of life: a desperate, fallen actor who's written his own suicide opus, a scientific young

  • 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

  • Rose, thou art sick

    Creator:
    McIntyre, Katharine L.
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    This thesis is the first third of a novel in progress called Rose, Thou Art Sick. In the selection, Rose loses her mother in a freak accident in Boston, is threatened by her evil uncle Charlie, and packs up and moves to Kansas to live with her father, whom she...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Katharine L. McIntyre for the

  • Shuddering blood

    Creator:
    Kroll, Adam L.
    Abstract:
    This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these...
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    L. Kroll for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing presented on May 25, 2007

  • Night dreamer walks

    Creator:
    Groves, John M. (John Martin)
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    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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    same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years

  • The dry country

    Creator:
    Van Handel, Lucinda S.
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    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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    novel follows a year and a half in the life of a young girl as she comes of age. A water rights

  • There were bears and rumors of bears

    Creator:
    Miftaraj, Andre M.
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    There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears is a collection of stories that explores spiritual injury and recovery using a variety of interior and exterior narrative approaches to depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary, aspects of experience. In each story, the characters encounter situations in the physical...
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    " offers a portrait of a young girl that is grounded in consensus reality, using elements of personal