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The Spinners' Tales, Sierra N. Offutt

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“The Spinners’ Tales” is a loosely connected story collection exploring the lives of a variety of supernaturally gifted characters, referred to within their own community as Spinners.

Sixth Form, Adrienne Barton

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The ten stories in this short story collection explore the liminal spaces created by certain physical spaces as well as times in the characters’ lives. The stories are largely related to a school environment, and the relationships and experiences that are unique to the players living and moving within that context. How much are the relationships and actions of the characters influenced by the setting. What weight do institutional forces and tradition carry in the characters’ lives, and how do they exploit it for their own will or conform?

Crossroads And Crow Feathers, Travis E. Bowman

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis uses the short story form to examine the influence of myth, magick, and the supernatural on the interstitial areas of the United States. The power of words as a force for change figures prominently in these stories. This thesis looks at the monstrous as it moves in the darkness and in the minds of humans, but also at the tremendous depths of compassion and courage we find in ourselves when faced with monstrous situations.

The First Rule Of Improv, John M. Gilder

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The First Rule of Improv is a collection of fictional short stories concerned with loss, life’s unfairness, the weight of the past, and how people succeed or fail in coping. Each story explores these notions through its characters, who vary wildly in terms of both dramatic severity and success in the face of adversity, with the first rule of improv—to accept and build—being suggested by the author as the healthiest manner of approach, if not necessarily the easiest.

Dark Smoke Rising, Matthew Knutson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A collection of short fiction set in and around Southern California.

How We Live Today And Other Stories, Gregory W. Rohloff

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

How We Live Today is a collection of stories about family connections and the process of making amends to keep a family whole. The families are not just traditional families, but also arrangements constructed out of necessity, circumstance, or convenience. The title story tells how a man ends a lengthy divide with a stepmother for the sake of her, his son, and ultimately himself. We see adolescents do the right thing in their circumstances at the risk of losing peer standing or to avert future social damage. An older golfer encourages a younger golfer, easing guilt but realizing that respect …

Philadelphia Stories, Leigh A. Stuart

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

These stories provide a look at a Philadelphia family over decades.

North Of Almost Everything, Joseph Kelly

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Debris, Daniel Sutter

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Play Dead, Ann Hackett

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Can't Blame A Girl For Trying, Emily Capdeville

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Montagnards, Jarred J. Marlatt

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Chaos Management, Terrance Gutberlet

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Whatever It Is We're Competing For, Ferris W. Mcdaniel

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Rampant Love, Erica F. Deveer

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Cunning Folk, Erin N. Wylie

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In The Sins of the Mothers, the main character, Bridgette, suffers a mental breakdown after the death of her three-month-old baby, Celeste, from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). She develops severe obsessive-compulsive disorder with the delusion that the child is trapped in Limbo because she was never baptized. The delusion haunts Bridgette, and she suffers brief dissociative episodes with visual hallucinations. Bridgette hears of a church in Provence where, according to a seventeenth century legend, children who died without baptism returned briefly to life under the intersession of Saint Pantaleon were baptized and gained heaven. She decides to exhume Celeste’s …

Father And Mother Songs, Heather Fowler

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A collection of stories submitted by Heather Fowler for receipt of an MFA degree in Summer 2015.

The First Foretelling, Cynthia M. Davidson

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This is an original work. It is a full length novel. The main character is Zeso Eliza Greylin.

The Isle Of Flightless Birds: A Concise History, Carin Chapman

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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A Sister's Mythology, Robin Baudier

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Wolves Of Gehenna, John H. Shinholser

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A novel by JS Harlow. Mattock Corwin, a young man living in the vampire ruled kingdom of Gehenna, discovers that he is a mage and must escape the land of his birth before the rulers of his land destroy him as a potential threat to their power.

Glasgow And Other Stories, Hannah Choi

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

It's Good To See You're Awake, Maurice C. Ruffin

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a short story collection set primarily New Orleans and focuses on the subject of fathers and sons. It explores the effect that the absence of a father figure or the presence of an unsuitable father may have on boys and men. The stories are literary fiction.

Bend Against The Wind, Sidney W. Meilleur

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Best Laid Plans And Other Betrayals, Kimberly Clouse

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

You're Among Friends, Denise Dirks

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

N'Awlins Po Boy, Warren J. Graffeo

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

N’Awlins Po Boy draws heavily on the author’s memories and recollections of growing up in the New Orleans of the 1940s and 1950s, but it is a work of fiction. Although the settings and scenes are rendered as accurately as memory allows, the circumstances, situations and people are entirely fictional. During the immediate post-WWII decade, the city went through a rapid series of changes, some calm and nearly unnoticed, others turbulent and upsetting to the natural order that had prevailed for more than two centuries. This is an account of those changes as they might have been seen through …