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A Muzzle For The Lamb: A Novel, Scott Beggs May 2024

A Muzzle For The Lamb: A Novel, Scott Beggs

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The Homecoming Game, Olivia Dorothy Daras Dec 2023

The Homecoming Game, Olivia Dorothy Daras

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The Homecoming Game follows 16-year-old Ellie as she discovers that growing up is a lot more difficult than she thought it would be. To her horror, high school has become less about getting good grades and more about your popularity status — or so that’s what her best friend tells her. The growing pains of being a teenager and dealing with a not-so-perfect home life culminate when something utterly insane happens: she’s asked to the Homecoming Dance by someone other than the guy she’s been kind of dating. With her social life and personal life in flux, Ellie has to …


Only The Eyes: A Novel, Jason Michael Palomo May 2022

Only The Eyes: A Novel, Jason Michael Palomo

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Only the Eyes revolves around a series of murders that take place in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, the government of which suppresses the media to maintain the nation's reputation as a safe, innovative tourist destination. After the murders are leaked to the international press and can no longer be ignored, the Sheikhs of the country. decide to procure an investigative consultant through manipulative means to help them capture the unknown suspect. Former-Special-Agent Ramon Del Toro is now a true-crime writer, and he reluctantly takes on the difficult task of creating a psychological profile of the suspect, much to the …


Black River, William Ramon Daugherty Jan 2019

Black River, William Ramon Daugherty

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The Healer, Crystal Hurd Jan 2019

The Healer, Crystal Hurd

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This fictional work explores the friendship between a girl with healing powers and a boy disfigured in a farm accident.


Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar Jan 2019

Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar

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An anxious college freshman who befriends a party-loving junior girl and both hatch a plan to escape from the border to California, trying to save a mutual friend and escape their dark pasts.


The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre Jan 2017

The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre

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In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed “Or,” a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a “consciousness in virtual space.” Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlando’s personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the host’s own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlando’s brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of …


Only The Aperture, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer Jan 2016

Only The Aperture, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer

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Only the Aperture is a collection of ten short stories. Each story renders a moment in a different famous photographer's life.


The Weightless Machine, Justin David Stone Jan 2016

The Weightless Machine, Justin David Stone

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The Weightless Machine is an original novel by Justin David Stone written to satisfy the Thesis requirements of a Master's in Fine Arts from the Bilingual Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.


And Second Comes The Son, Matthew Phillips Jan 2016

And Second Comes The Son, Matthew Phillips

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'And Second Comes the Son' is a post-war noir novel.


The Man Who Took A Breath, Robert Allen Crowl Jan 2016

The Man Who Took A Breath, Robert Allen Crowl

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The Man Who Took A Breath confronts the ongoing battle of good and evil and its connection to humanity's search for and defense of personal truth, mainly as it's revealed within and through human relationships. Blurring the line between right and wrong can force readers to take a breath before condemning someone else's brand of truth. People from all walks of life endure familial relationships, which estrange and comfort, tear down and build up. These stories are a series of snapshots into a variety of relationships and spiritual crusades meant to depict humanities' deep well for compassion, empathy, and love …


Living With A Hero, Grayson Edds Jan 2016

Living With A Hero, Grayson Edds

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Living with a Hero is an original fiction piece. It tells the story of four military wives who have to rediscover their husbands after return from deployment. The Marines come home and display different symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.


Reckless Anxiety, Hugo Esteban Rodriguez Jan 2015

Reckless Anxiety, Hugo Esteban Rodriguez

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Preface

SCOPE OF PROJECT

Reckless Anxiety will focus on fourteen short stories that have characters who all suffer from some form of mental illness, compulsion or disorder. The title is itself a paradox, because anxiety in its general sense could make someone with it more cautious than normal. I wanted to take it to an extreme level and approach writing with the recklessness of an artist afraid of what could happen should he ever stop moving or stop dancing.

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Before I started developing my Thesis, as a writer I felt as if I was on a path with …