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Selections from Inventions in the Key of C is a collection of essays about cancer and issues related to cancer. Books on the topic of cancer are plentiful. There are a number of narrative memoirs including The Red Devil, by Kathryn...
It seems as though I always hearken back to the same themes, in whatever I write. This mix of genres I have pieced together hinges off the idea of how there is what is, and how we perceive it to be. I feel that the non-fiction piece is...
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...
The land of ancient Egypt, as with most ancient cultures, was described in terms of its fertility, flooding, and available fresh water. The fertile flood plains of the Nile and the Delta that begins at Giza and Cairo was called Kemet, ...
Novel based on an Upstate New York Vineyard about a young couple's struggles with economic hardships, sexual identity, and the cyclical nature of love.
Set sometime in 2002, And the Hills Burned tells the story of Chidi, a boy whose father – former Minister of Petroleum in the Nigerian Military administration of the early 90s, and current environmental activist – runs afoul of the...
These nine stories are a reflection of the shifting culture and rapid economic growth of Northwest Arkansas, the birthplace of Walmart and Tyson Foods. While the stories may have a distinctly Southern flavor in their setting, they are...
This novel represents the culmination of my work over the last three years at Florida State University, featuring many of the thematic elements I've explored in short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. ALL THE GOOD NUMBERS is an extended...
For me, there has always been a wolf at the edge of the woods, watching and waiting. My sister often cried wolf, trying to shape reality into words that fit her emotional desperation. The rest of my family simply agreed not to speak of...
The following is a collection of unconnected short stories inspired by studying the work of short fiction authors, the likes of which include (but are not limited to) Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, and Jane...
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...
Five Stories contains the imaginative work of Jason Freels. The thesis concentrates on the craft of writing short fiction, and will demonstrate the creative abilities of the author by successfully producing stories in this form.
"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...
This is a collection of short stories in fulfillment of the Florida State University Ph.D. dissertation requirement. The collection contains eight stories. Its title is Catching Up: A Collection. The stories form a type of sequential...
This dissertation collects stories that range from traditional realism to more experimental forms often exhibited by contemporary fiction, but never to the point of breaking what John Gardner defines as the "vivid and continuous dream"...
To complete my Master of Arts degree I am submitting Part One of my novel-in-progress Horse Show Circuit. This first section presents the novel's set up of characters, setting, and situation. The novel is written in the tradition of...
THE HEART IS A SLOW LEARNER AND OTHER STORIES explores love's vagaries in settings that range from the Deep South to Alaska. The stories depict relationships between lovers, friends, and family members--especially mothers and daughters....
"The King of Love" is a creative dissertation. It is a novel focusing on the struggles of the African-American community to bridge gulfs and divides within itself. The location and setting of the story are in the present day and revolve...
This novel is a queer coming of age story written for a teenage audience, dealing with themes of sexuality and gender. The story follows Taylor Garland, a homecoming queen in the fictional town of Hopuonk, Massachusetts in 1999, as she...
Looking for the Perfect Blueberry Pancake is the fictional story of John Smith--an ex-cook depressed with the superficiality of his ninety-hour-per-week job managing a high-end cigar bar and disenchanted with what he thought would be a...
The central characters of How To Make Love To An Apple are a mother and daughter. The first part of the book takes place in the girl's memory of her childhood in Arizona at the house where she grew up with her mother and father. The girl...
My thesis consists of three essays: "Dennis, Would You Take a Quick Look at This, and Community Center." I also have included four short stories: "The British Are Coming, Like Frankenstein, Woman's World, and Auto-Man." The...
Cole Fortan, the narrator of my novel, is a character who hates himself. He's dropped out of college at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater to be the friendly, neighborhood marijuana dealer, the guy all the kids at Eskimo Joe's go to...
The stories in this collection depicts the lives of young men coming of their age as they struggle to find contentment within themselves. They are unlikely journeys of self discovery that help them find this contentment. The central...
The three stories contained in this thesis function as an exploration of hybrid identity. The main character, Nomi, is a "k'tina khozeret, a returning adolescent. In legal terms, in Israel, this is a person born in Israel who is removed...
The stories in this collection are an exploration of the diasporic Puerto Rican identity, and span both Puerto Rico and the U.S. American south to make sense of the overlapping fascination with death, the grotesque, and the fabulous....
An Appropriate Age is a novel told through the alternating third-person perspectives of three women in the same family: Anna, Presley, and Gigi. It is divided into three parts. It is set in a fictional retirement community in central...
Set in the near future, North imagines a world where the oceans have risen faster than expected, triggering economic and political dysfunction. The novel has two storylines that ultimately intertwine. In the first, 20-year-old Olin...
The 1920's blues scene is a time and scene often depicted in books, plays, film, and music. However much the time and place have been popular for artistic exploration, the story of the lesbian and lesbian existence in this time and place...
Several of the stories in this collection were inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping. What most interests me was the public hysteria over the kidnapping, and the astonishing number of people who attempted to insinuate themselves into the...
This dissertation presents a novel that focuses on an immigrant family that struggles to understand the tragic death of one of their own. Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Mina Zand, the youngest child of Iranian immigrant, died, presumably...
These stories explore various tensions within the fictional community of Boatyard, Alabama. Though each story in the collection aims to present clear conflicts between characters, many of the stories also consider the natural dangers...
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...
Set during the Reagan era, Unlikely Heroes is a post-Vietnam, baby boomer novel dealing with oil and the environment, academia and violence, the military and the media. In it, Kelsey Mueller, a young female photographer from the oil...
Finding Elvis: Stories - a creative dissertation - is a collection of ten short stories divided into two parts: Bad Jews and Song of Songs. The five stories comprising the first section of the manuscript - Bad Jews - follow, in part, the...
Sunshine is a graphic novel about the problem of memory. The protagonist, Geraldine, is trying to tell her life story, only to find that she cannot discern fact from fiction with certainty; she recalls dreams, lies, family secrets, ...
This study focuses on the representation of prostitution on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. After delineating the historical, religious, and juridical contexts of medieval and early modern whoredom and prostitution, this study...
Blue-Skinned Gods follows the story of Kalki, a young boy who is worshipped by a Hindu cult as the next and last incarnation of the god Vishnu. In the narrative’s substantial revision, I will utilize a dualistic time structure—one...
This collection, entitled Where the Cottonwoods Grow, is built around the theme of family. Whether it is a good one or bad one, every person has a family of some form. In these stories I explore the familial role through such questions...
When he suspects his dad of cheating on his mom, seventh grade bookworm Terry Jenkins uses his powers of detection to learn the truth--but it may be more than he can handle. After going through the lower grades of Saint Boniface as "that...
This dissertation is a short story collection centered on the experiences of an immigrant family originating from Taipei, Taiwan and settling in Los Angeles, California. Its principal characters are the two children, a pair of brothers...
Welcome to Century Village is a collection of short stories narrated by second and third generation Jewish Americans living in South Florida. All of the stories are told in first-person, in a distinctly Yiddish idiom. Most of the stories...
Selections From Keri Pack: Stories From the Tomato Field is a collection of works based on my experiences as a child growing up in the world of agriculture and near the Everglades, it is a memoir about my life and my family's 57 years in...
The Calculation of Love, a novel, follows a precocious fourteen-year-old girl's first semester of high school. After watching her brother have sex with his pregnant teenage girlfriend, Mallory Shreckengost begins reading about the...
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...
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