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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...
Because Hialeah follows the life of Franca, a teenage Cuban-American girl growing up in Miami's Cuban exile community of Hialeah, Florida. Figuratively, Hialeah floats in the ocean, somewhere between the Caribbean its inhabitants came...
This thesis consists of five short stories written during 2000-2003. Three of the stories were written in fiction workshops, and two were written after I completed the coursework for my M.A. All but one are written in first-person. ...
Brett Kroska presents a collection of six stories, each set in the Pahatawa valley in North Dakota, a community known for its strange, isolated persons.
The premise for this short novel, The Afterlife, with Harry Houdini, derives from the legend that Houdini made a pact with his wife, Bess, to return to her and explain his experience after death; also, from the fact that he died on...
King of Carothers' Altar, Arizona has two time strands which are woven together through alternating chapters. The novel spans the Great Depression to the present day, and takes the reader through the birth and death of a town called...
As If We Were Already Free is a novel narrated in the first person by Mackenna Doyle, a 26-year old man in prison for murdering a high school classmate when he was sixteen, a crime of which he admits culpability at the outset of the...
In late summer of 1854 in the small town of Mayfly in western North Carolina sixteenyear- old Rex Benjamin stumbles upon a telegram sent to his devious stepfather by a mysterious "Mr. L" who claims to be coming across the mountains from...
This work is a collection of short stories entitled The Way of Mothers. This collection consists of four stories that were originally produced in writing workshops and two stories that I wrote on my own. I have heard many times a quote...
This work is a collection of five short stories, each of which deal in some way with romantic love. This is not to say that these are all typical "love stories, wherein characters pursue each other in various ways for the purpose of...
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.
This manuscript is a novella entitled, After the Sun Fell, which traces the early lives of its two main characters, Shin Moon-Cha, a young Korean girl who meets, falls in love, and marries an American Soldier, Robert Asher, and moves...
Stay follows the journey of seventeen year old Carson Frugé--raised as a boy and besotted with her own father--as she runs away from home, works in a casino turned underground strip club, and shacks up with a petty drug dealer only to...
Monkey Chasing Blues is a novel in five parts, which tells the story of Harold Purple, an expatriate Mississippian living in Vermont and running a fortune cookie company on the brink of massive success. One careless mistake puts that...
Playing House: Stories is a collection of short fiction submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the MFA. Each story stands on its own and features a unique protagonist, but some commonalities in theme and subject matter...
Boys & Girls & God: Essays concerns itself with the intense and needless loneliness of the human experience. As David Shields writes (or, given the project of his book, likely (mis)quotes) in his genre-bending treatise Reality Hunger: “I...
The novel focuses on the story of a group of fifteen year olds living in the same hallway at a prestigious, international, all-girls, catholic boarding school in Geneva the spring Azeneth, a new student, arrives. The story is told from...
This collection of seven short stories is in fulfillment of the Florida State University MA thesis requirement. Each of the stories, set during the off-season in the fictional gulf coast town of Mossy Key, can stand on their own. Jointly...
The following is a collection of memoir-based essays that detail the author's life and experiences with her brother throughout their childhood together.
In A City of Shallow Craters the chapters oscillate between two POV characters, Leona Orfe and Kenneth Cartwright. Leona, a senior in high school, struggles to understand her brother's suicide attempt and can only reconcile the situation...
The following collection of short stories has been written within the span of my educational journey at this university. The stories have transformed, and improved with time, crafted with my utmost consideration, and love. I wouldn't...
Sure Thing is a collection of short stories set primarily in Southeastern Wisconsin, in the fictional suburb of Forest Hills, south of Milwaukee. The stories take place between 2008 and 2018 and document the daily lives of the people of...
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