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Woman by the Water and Other Stories is a collection of four short stories that range in setting from a touristy beach town in the Florida Gulf to a party school in northern Appalachia, and from old-fashioned Midwestern suburbia to a...
Beasts in the Dark is a collection of poems held together by an elemental voice in search of identity. Multiple selves are revealed on the journey for identity, and the poems ask hard questions, probe into suffering corners of human want...
Mormon Boy is Seth Brady Tucker's first published poetry collection, originally published by Elixir Press in 2012. This collection is representative of five years of Seth's work, and most of the poems within the collection have been...
This collection of stories is divided into two parts: the first is called Edgewater, the second Father Land. The eight stories comprising the first section of the manuscript--Edgewater--all center on and are narrated by the same young...
"If baseball is a narrative, an epic of exile and return, a vast, communal poem about separation, loss, and the hope for reunion—if baseball is a Romance Epic—it is finally told by the audience." These words come from A. Bartlett...
I Lost My Cherry… is the southern-gothic coming of age story about Purdy Brackshaw, who while trying to lose her virginity with her boyfriend Rat, must deal with her parents' crumbling marriage, and her best friend's plunge from upper...
Shirley Temple Dreams is a collection of linked stories about Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II, the times ranging from the turn of the century to the postwar fifties. Eleven stories are structured into three...
This thesis is a collection of short stories that explore characters undergoing a personal change and how it affects their lives and relationships. Each character struggles with a sense of ambivalence as well as a desire to control and...
Contingency tells the story of Richard MacMurray, a political analyst and advocate for freedom of expression. On New Year's Day, Richard learns that his estranged sister has been killed in a plane crash, and that he will be asked to...
This collection of short fiction, Hoop Dancing: A Novella and Seven Stories, focuses on working class men and women living in eastern North Carolina. The majority of the characters are a single generation removed from the family farms...
Drinking Dirty Water: A Novella is an attempt to examine marriage and divorce in contemporary society through the lens of one woman's experiences with and without her husband. It is also intended, in some small way, to partake in the...
A Man To Blame traces the story of a young woman, June Wells, returning to a family that is struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy after a devastating accusation. Ten years prior to the start of the novel, June's younger brother was...
Despite This Pearl is a memoir inspired by the incidental discovery of a brain tumor. Living with the constant possibility, the constant probability, of the tumor growing and one day requiring surgical removal incites the author to...
This dissertation is a collection of ten short stories. All are works of fiction composed by the author during the years 2004-2006 when he was a student in the Creative Writing PhD program at Florida State University.
Reasons Why We Fell Apart: Fictions is a short story collection that skirts the line between poetry and prose by incorporating several prose poems. Overall, the collection covers my journey as a writer while at Florida State. From my...
The following master's thesis includes three stories. These stories are fiction and any resemblance to real people is not intended. The stories range from coming of age tales to cultural satire.
The following dissertation is a collection of poetry that, in large part, reveals the narrative of Zinnie Lucas, a fictional character set among historical events in my family's past. The poems are told from the point of view (sometimes...
This creative thesis is a collection of stories that deal with issues surrounding the controlling question: "Who is the modern woman?" There is no singular, all-encompassing answer; however, these stories attempt to uncover possible...
You Can't Forgive What You Can't Forget is a collection of short stories submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Fine Arts. The stories are responses to the various ways Hurricane Katrina...
Let's take for granted that the notion of eternal return is utterly true, writes Will Duncan, from prison, as he finally reveals his embarrassing secret to the reader: his earnest belief that his cousin, the infamous Paul Duncan, is...
This creative thesis tells how, in the summer of 2005, the author'a malingering grad student who had already overstayed his welcome in a vain five-year attempt to forge a novel'drove the entire length of the United States along...
This dissertation novel is the result of a longstanding desire by the author to fictionalize an incident firmly embedded in her family lore concerning the immigration of her grandmother's parents to America, the tragic death of her great...
The poems in Like This may be grouped into the following categories: ' Poems in the voice of the author that explore the tension between the alluring stability of contemporary American suburbia and the high anxiety of a born second...
Florida Stories is a collection of short fiction that takes as its setting the most distinctive state in the union. In Miami, a physicist is forced to face his inability to love; in Palm Beach, a girl relates the aftermath of her tragedy...
The stories comprising the dissertation manuscript, Hellions, for the most part take place in the skewered and surreal landscape of Florida, a south not quite the south, but instead a swampy terra incognita that reflects the dislocation...
The collected stories in the dissertation manuscript, The Widow Sunday, are set primarily in Mississippi, and present a south devoid of reference to contemporary culture. The south of The Widow Sunday is timeless, a microcosm where the...
Zaffron is the story of an illiterate, lower-class Muslim girl from south India sold into prostitution in Bombay. She and her friends attempt to start a small business to escape the flesh trade, but when they are not paid for their...
Relief, a novel, tells the story of Eric and Abigail Kees, who fall in love in the months after the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Over the next decade Eric and Abigail marry, have a child, start a business, buy a second home and...
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