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A Certain Charm, Preface, Emma Miller

Exile

No abstract provided.

The Finishing Stroke, Sally Falch

Exile

The artistic work is unattributed in the text, but Jane Erb, Midge Greenlee, and Barbara Russ are credited as artists in the issue.

Commonthought (2017), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

The Otherworlds Of Men, Aaron Morris

English Theses & Dissertations

The Otherworlds of Men is a collection of short stories that draws equally from the traditions of speculative science fiction dystopias and western noir. The stories often have a plot grounded in gritty realism, similar to the stories of Annie Proulx, Daniel Woodrell, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Harrison; however, the main character typically is typically injured by a psychic wound that leads to a speculative, otherworldly occurrence. The characters experience time travel, out of body experiences, wormholes to other worlds, spaceflight, distortions of relativistic physics, and, in one case, a character is haunted by Geronimo’s ghost. The characters experience these …

A Particular Providence: Linked Tales Of Storms Finding Distressed Family Trees, James J. Magee

James J. Magee

No abstract provided.

Emergent Fiction, Brandon Mcfarlane

Publications and Scholarship

The sixty-four works of emergent fiction of 2015 evidence several noteworthy transitions in Canadian prose. While it is admittedly problematic to discuss the novels and collections of short stories as some form of unified whole, several patterns emerged that merit highlighting and demand critical attention because they represent new directions for Canadian fiction.

The texts mark the arrival of a new wave of literary experimentation that embraces risk-taking and the pursuit of novelty as fundamental characteristics of good art and great storytelling. The featured texts created wonderfully new ways to tell stories by inventing narrative techniques or breaking with generic …

Promethia 2010-2011, Oral Roberts University

Promethia

No abstract provided.

Open Doors, Meagan R. Baccinelli

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This memoir is about community, family and race relations as the author experiences them in New Jersey, where she grew up, at University of Maryland, where she went to college, in Washington, D.C., during Barack Obama’s presidency, and in New Orleans, where she lands in her late twenties. It is meant to shed light on the possibilities and beauty to be found in diverse, close-knit communities, where people share in each other’s joys and sorrows. It also speaks to the importance of romantic partnerships in which both people share the same values, and explore and grow together.

The Internal Compass, Joshua Dyer

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

It’S Not About Brooklyn, Elee Maybelle Oak

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

My work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program has culminated into a collage form hybrid comprised of vignettes, poetry, and other creative works. The writing engages central themes, through the Queer gaze of the character Sissy. She became suspect at an early age because of her odd aptitudes along with a physical appearance that never fit. She dodged and at times embraced an identification as a sort of side show curiosity, and an intoxicated freak of gender, race, and talent. She survived physical and mental attacks. Then she blindly stepped …

Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida

Theses

The purpose of my creative writing is to highlight a group of U.S. citizens still woefully underrepresented in literature proper: the Latinx middle class. I’m keenly interested in exploring Puerto Rican and first- and second-generation Latinx immigrant stories. Even though some of the experiences from these groups have been elegantly visited by writers such as Giannina Braschi, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Julia Alvarez, and others, there are nuances to the Latinx middle class experience that are yet to be uncovered. Being stuck in the cultural, linguistic, socio-economic, and political middles in a country that has recently taken a largely nationalist …

Walking In Waves, Sarah David

All NMU Master's Theses

The following thesis consists of a story collection, the majority of which are flash fiction pieces. The thesis consists of two sections. The first section, “Walking in Waves,” is composed of stories about familial relationships and the balancing act of motherhood. Some of these stories play with unique formats or degrees of speculative fiction. Many are rather lyrical in nature. The second section is a novella-in-flash; entitled “Tiny’s Jazz Magic,” this series of stories tells the tale of a woman and her young daughter in 1920’s Storyville, New Orleans.

Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversations: Offerings From The Biennial Alecc Conference Queen’S University, Kingston 2016, Jenny Kerber, Astrida Neimanis, Pamela Banting, Tania Aguila-Way, Ron Benner, Mick Smith, Adeline Johns-Putra, Peter C. Van Wyck

The Goose

At ALECC’s biennial gathering at Queen’s University in June 2016, participants came together to explore the possibilities of “making common causes” from a host of angles, yet all were anchored in an acknowledgement of the diverse more-than-human relationships that make up our common worlds. The following collection of short essays, authored by some of the gathering’s keynote speakers, explores specific aspects of making common causes. In this special section of The Goose, we deliberately invoke the plural of conversation. We understand the effort to make common causes as a process, rather than a “one and done” act. It is multifaceted …

Exile Anthology: A Special Sesquicentennial Issue, Deborah S. Appleton, Clark Baise, Bonnie Bishop, Tim Cockey, Alison Conte, Christine Cooper, Doug Cox, Lindrith Davies, James Gallant, Dianne Goss, Cynthia Hohn, Kathy Kerchner, Kim Mcmullen, Dan Pancake, Dawn Patnode, Angela Peckenpaugh, Deborah Pope, Robert Smyth, Mary S. Treco, Dennis Trudell, Bonnie L. Verburg, Lawrence Weber

Exile

Horses by Deborah S. Appleton 1

Man and His World by Clark Baise 2-11

South Dakota, Route 34 by Bonnie Bishop 12

Heads and Tails by Tim Cockey 13-17

When The Bough Breaks by Alison Orleans Conte 17

Poem by Christine Cooper (Oosterbaan) 18

Flood on the Jemez by Doug Cox 19

San Antonia Canyon by Doug Cox 19

Canyon Poems by Doug Cox 19

Busy Being Born by Lindrith Davies 20-26

The Queen is Dead, Long Life The Queen by James Funaro 27

The Gates of Hell by James Funaro 28

What The Chorus Said by James Funaro 28 …

Exile Vol. Xvii No. 2, Julie Lockwood, J. Barmeier, Alice Merrill, Cary Anne Spear, Pete Porteous, Curtis Hutchens, Yasue Aoki, Holly Battles, Keith Mcwalter

Exile

POETRY

Grammer lesson by Julie Lockwood 5

Hunter by J. Barmeier 10

(rare) by Alice Merrill 13

November Leaf by J. Barmeier 13

In retrospect by Julie Lockwood 14

Weaving by Alice Merrill 16

SPETSE by Cary Anne Spear 17

View From A Garret To Infinity J. Barmeier 18

Morning after Reflection by J. Barmeier 19

A MINOR CHANGE AT DENISON U.? by Pete Porteous 30

Snowflak by J. Barmeier 32

LOVING by Curtis Hutchens 34

IRISH CONVERSATION by Cary Anne Spear 36

On This Planet by yasue aoki 39

FICTION

Visiting Before The Mirror by Holly Battles 8-9, 31 …

Campus Vol Ix N 4, Mike Cook, Bruce Mcintosh, Joen Pritchard, Prentice Stout, John Hodges, C. Tuttle, George M. Fenberg, Midge Greenlee, John Miller, Beth Hodge, Tip Rasor, Shaw Kull

Campus

Howard Studio. Cover. Picture. 1.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 4.

Cook, Mike. "misty Mood". Prose. 5.

McIntosh, Bruce. "Misty Mood". Picture. 5.

Pritchard, Joen. "In the Good 'Ole Summertime...". Prose. 6.

Stout, Prentice. "In the Good 'Ole Summertime...". Picture. 6.

Hodges, John. "How to Choose a Roommate". Prose. 7.

Tuttle, C. Untitled. Cartoon. 7.

Fenberg, Geo. M. "Students---". Prose. 3.

Wood and Knapp. "Jokes From the Jazz Age as Flips From Flappers". Prose. 8.

Greenlee, Midge. "Nine to Five". Prose. 10.

Anonymous. "Mr. and Miss Campus-1954". Picture. 11.

Anonymous. "Well Shut My Mouth!". Prose. 14.

Tuttle, C. Untitled. Cartoon. 14.; Miller, …

Campus Vol V N 2, Jean Gillies, Jim Gould, Honnie Macdonald, Lynn Olwin, John Trimble, Barrie Bedell, John Hodges, Joe Yearling, Sally Gleason, Bill Dresser

Campus

Gillies, Jean. Cover. Picture. 0.

Gould, Jim. "A Christmas Carol...A Modern Tragedy". Prose. 3.

MacDonald, Honnie. "More Sinned Against". Prose. 4.

Olwin, Lynn. "Campus Calender Queens For Christmas". Poem. 7.

Trimble, John. "Campus Calender Queens For Christmas". Picture. 7.

Bedell, Barrie and John Hodges. "Shopping Guide For Christmas" Prose. 15.

Yearling, Joe. "Sport Shorts". Prose. 16.

Dresser, Bill. "Tenth Anniversary". Prose. 18.

Gleason, Sally. "Lost Christmas". Prose. 17.

Civil Rights Gone Wrong: Racial Nostalgia, Historical Memory, And The Boston Busing Crisis In Contemporary Children’S Literature, Lynnell L. Thomas

American Studies Faculty Publication Series

On May 14, 2014, three white Boston city councilors refused to vote to approve a resolution honoring the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. the Board of Education because, as one remarked, “I didn’t want to get into a debate regarding forced busing in Boston.” Against the recent national proliferation of celebrations of civil rights milestones and legislation, the controversy surrounding the fortieth anniversary of the court decision that mandated busing to desegregate Boston public schools speaks volumes about the historical memory of Boston’s civil rights movement. Two highly acclaimed contemporary works of children’s literature set during or inspired by Boston’s …

On Marie Curie And Me, Sharon L. Stephenson

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

When people discover I am a nuclear physicist, they often say, "Oh, like Marie Curie!" And yes, I am like Marie in that I have woman parts, I study nuclei, I have two children and a physicist husband. But had I lived in her time, I would not have been that rare female admitted to the Sorbonne. I could not have quietly made the top scores on the math and physics examinations. I am impulsive and thin-skinned, my occasional cleverness passing for deeper talent. I would probably have been a cleaning girl, pregnant at 15, unable to speak any language …

Ruth Harris: Under The Prairie Moon, Mary Hays

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Ruth Harris: Under the Prairie Moon is rooted in the rural Illinois landscape and its communities. The stories follow Ruth from childhood to old age and offer multiple viewpoints on fidelity, home, forgiveness, and finally, love. Focus on one character through a lifetime allows perspective to shift as she ages.

The Short And Surprisingly Private Life Of King Bolo: Eliot’S Bawdy Poems And Their Audiences, Jayme Stayer

2017 Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

The Cliff, Beatrice Ann Wedd

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Mercury 2017

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Don’T Forget Where You Belong: How I Found Myself Through One Direction, Rafy Evans

Intertext

No abstract provided.

Wearing Bare Feet, J. P. Schlottman

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Wearing Bare Feet is a linked collection of wry short stories about a family of three on fictional Eel Island, three miles off the coast of Maine, an island that revolves around lobstering, tourism, billionaire movie stars, department store heirs, jewelry store heiresses, people who houseclean for snowbirds ... and the old, rich and entitled summer people who come back from Florida for the annual Fourth of July Parade, and then die. Because it is easier to die there. It is why the 13-mile-long "rock off America" has more ambulances per capita than anywhere else in New England.

It also …