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In My Own Hands is a novel that follows the life of Abbie, a young woman with an overbearing, needy mother and absentee father. As a young child Abbie witnesses the abuse of her mother at the hands of her biological father. While seh...
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...
This thesis is a novel. It is the story of Frank, a pickpocket who moonlights as a children's magician. He falls in love with Nasya who is a volunteer at a hospice for children with horrible and strange diseases. The book follows their...
This thesis is a collection of women's voices and the stories they have to tell. Though not all of them are told directly by the women themselves, their voices are at the center. Many of the stories in this collection take place in or...
My thesis, entitled Behind Closed Eyes, is a novella that intends to explore the struggle for identity that an American-born Korean must contend with—the issues of assimilating in America while yearning for roots. There is the innate...
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...
Mia Carpenter has spent most of her adult life avoiding her father and resenting him for running out on their family when she was twelve. Now approaching her thirtieth birthday, Mia once again fears she's being left behind by a man she...
My theis is a collection of five stories, centered around the eponymous "What Is Visible, which title speaks for all of the work. Three are modern, hyperurban tales; one is set in 1850, and another is a road story.
I was working as a bookstore manager in Tucson, Arizona in 1993. It was there I first noticed the habits of bookstore patrons. Most enjoyed browsing the shelves, and they did this by choosing a book, tracing their fingers across the...
After a messy divorce, Jeff moves to Hawaii to escape his pain and to start afresh. Running cannot stop the flood of emotions and memories, as he soon finds. He meets a beautiful young stripper who accepts him as he is, but his...
Like most teenagers, Morris fears divorce; he fears his parents won't get one. Morris hates his mother. Margaret dominates and dictates every aspect of her family's lives and Morris can't take it anymore. What's worse is his girlfriend's...
When I began writing this collection, it started off as a short story collection. As I continued to work with memory and recreation / re-vision, my stories began taking the shape of non-fiction. I have decided to include two non-fiction...
The stories in this collection are perhaps so different from one another because my sources of inspiration (a photograph of hands molding clay, one of Aesop's fables, a guidebook on Morocco) are so varied. The joy of writing short pieces...
My Heart is With You in This Sad Time is a collection of first-person narratives with female protagonists set in the Florida panhandle. While their ages, educations, socioeconomic levels and domestic circumstances vary greatly, they are...
This is a collection of seven short stories submitted as a thesis project to Florida State University in the spring of 2014. Although most of the stories take place in the state of New York, they are all set in America and they all deal...
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