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A Very Special Christmas, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

For more than an hour Alyssa had been sitting in front of our picture window without moving. In the darkened pane I couldn't help but notice the contrasting reflections-the bright lights of the Christmas tree and the hollow , unblinking eyes of my nine-year-old daughter. I could have told myself that she was mesmerized by the snowflakes drifting down like angel wings, but that would have been lying

Fiction Fix 04, Melissa Milburn, Sarah Clarke-Stuart, Kristen Iannuzzi, Vanessa Wells, Nathan Holic, Joshua Kreis Mctiernan, Ron Perline, Tina Helvie, Gavin Lambert, Jamie Hughes, Tim Gilmore, April Fisher

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 73, No. 1, Fall 2005, Daniel Sergeant, Nathan Dawley, Katy Diana, Klaus Yoder, Brad Schutts, Trevor Strunk, Joshua Solomon, Patrick Roesle, Thomas Richter, Jennifer Mingolello, Nathan Dawley, Tori Wynne, Tracey Ferdinand, Natalie Rokaski, Katherine Jones, Elsa Budzowski, Brett Celinski, Ashley Higgins

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Newspaper Clippings Found on the Wall of Giuseppe Luchenzo's Home When it was Raided by Police
• All the Time in the World
• The Man Who Would Win
• Souffle Suit
• A Day in the Mind
• Context
• Felicity / Awareness
• Frivolous
• Thank You Note to J.S.B.
• September 17, 2005
• Eight Ways of Looking at a Highway
• Dusty Glass Spreads Air Like Light
• Clockwork
• Rubber Band
• Outside Eye or I Am?
• A Mundane Mysticism
• Half Carat
• Things I Learned on My Trip to the Mutter …

Sandra Cisneros As Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories In Caramelo, Sally Marie Giles

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis discusses the ways in which Sandra Cisneros makes historical claims from a Chicana perspective by telling fictional family stories in Caramelo. Not only have Chicanas traditionally been marginalized ethnically by the Anglo mainstream, they have also suffered disenfranchisement as women in their own male-dominated cultural community. Both elements have contributed to the cultural silencing of Chicanas outside of domestic spaces, and particularly in historical discourse. Cisneros introduces storytelling as a means of empowering Chicanas through language that allows them to speak historically and still signify culturally. By telling stories from the site of the family, she ingeniously utilizes …

Two From The Underworld: Short Fiction., Stephen Glass

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis contains two works of short fiction. The first, “Afterlife,” is narrated by Jeff Carlton, whose unenthusiastic passage into fatherhood is complicated by his girlfriend Charlene’s obsession with mummification. The second, “Jolly,” is the story of Calvin Edwards, a young bus station attendant haunted by his father’s ghost and visited by a cadaverous stranger, Jolly, who also sees the dead. The stories are preceded by an introduction in which the author discusses his views on implied motivation in character development.

The Econometric Value Of Silence And Noise As Seen By A Non-Practicing Marxist, Stephen Whelpley

Senior Scholar Papers

A Collection of Poetry and Fiction

Isabel Undone, Lynne Berggren

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Isabel, a forty-year-old woman, measured her successes and failures against her perfect sister Natalie’s. But after Natalie is murdered by her husband, Isabel’s identity unravels as she picks up the pieces of her sister’s life and becomes the mother substitute for Natalie’s daughter.

While Isabel tries to understand how Natalie’s life spiraled out of control, she develops feelings for a horse trainer named Sam. As Isabel discovers that her sister was having an affair, Isabel and Sam begin a relationship of their own. However, conflicts arise when clues implicate Sam as Natalie’s lover. Isabel retreats, and realizes she will have …

Merely A Pictorial Subject: The Turn Of The Screw, Adam Sonstegard

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

2005 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring 2005, Patrick Roesle, Julie Gentile, Joshua Solomon, Ashley Higgins, Megan Bossler, Rachel Daniel, Thomas Richter, Victoria Wynne, Susannah Fisher, Jennifer Mingolello, Sarah Kauffman, Trevor Strunk, Jessica Schoff, Abi Munro, Klaus Yoder, Sean Neil, Alison Shaffer, Shane Borer, Whitney Roper, Daniel Bruno, Chris Curley, Shannon Burke

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Transmigration
• Faces of the Moon
• Euphony of the Euphonium
• He Met Me in the Arcs & Ebbs of Frailty
• An Adoration of Ordination
• Ebony: The Essence Thereof
• Curbside Statue Has No Legs Left
• Triggerfinger Romance
• Lost
• Running Through Connecticut
• Eve
• The Day Lates and the Dollar Shorts
• Somnambulist
• That's That
• The Glenn Machine
• Evenfall in Bad Homburg
• Absence of Field
• Dating Myself
• Traveling Without a Map
• The Non-Euclidean Way to Get Some Bagels
• La Belle Epoque
• Satin Boxes

Horn Of Plenty, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

Julia Archer had just sat down in the Lexington Opera House lounge when a stranger slipped onto the sear beside her at the bar. He had on black pants and a black shirt like the orchestra's horn section wore, and he was carrying a battered instrument case.

Love And Mono, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available

Against The Ubiquity Of Fictional Narrators, Andrew Kania

Philosophy Faculty Research

In this paper I argue against the theory – popular among theorists of narrative artworks – that we must posit a fictional narrative agent in every narrative artwork in order to explain our imaginative engagement with such works. I accept that every narrative must have a narrator, but I argue that in some central literary cases the narrator is not a fictional agent, but rather the actual author of the work. My criticisms focus on the strongest argument for the ubiquity of fictional narrators, Jerrold Levinson’s ontological-gap argument. Finally, I outline an alternative “minimal theory” of narrators, and some consequences …

Capers Island, A Novel, Jennifer J. Cavender

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Capers Island is a creative thesis about a woman named Delaney who has been having problems sleepwalking ever since her grandparents passed away. She decides to spend the summer on Capers Island, visiting an old college friend. While there, she visits a hypnotist to uncover repressed memories from her childhood. She begins the novel alone in West Virginia, and in the end, winds up on Capers Island in a tightly knit community. The novel contains elements of magical realism, the supernatural, and the psychological.

A Little Slice Of The Moon: Stories, Fatima Rashid

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Little Slice of the Moon: stories is a collection of short stories that explore the struggles of various characters to find their place in the world. And the world, despite its familiarity, can be a hostile place. The characters in this collection learn that families are a fragile lot, that every desire contains a paradox, that the Road of Life can seemingly be grasped by the horns, but that the future twists and turns, yet never escapes the past. And it is the past that haunts these characters' lives. One word, one act, impacts a lifetime. In A Little …

Baby And House, Catherine Austin Alexander

Bryant Literary Review

Imagine a yoga studio with pale yellow walls. Corduroy pillows piled under windows

Outside Leadville, Emily Morganti

Bryant Literary Review

I thought we would die on that mountain. Not in my heart but in my head.

Good To Be Gone, Robert George Bloom

LSU Master's Theses

n/a

Ball And Chain, Eloise Holland

LSU Master's Theses

Ball and Chain is a coming-of-age story that explores the pain and joy of an unusual first love. Patsy is a twenty-six-year-old virgin. As her body begins to deteriorate as the result of an unknown ailment, she finds herself intrigued by the beautiful and vibrant Anita. Initially unwilling to admit her attraction, Patsy distracts herself with work, her best friend’s quest to find the perfect tattoo artist, and the politics of her wealthy Houston family. When Patsy grows increasingly ill, she decides that she must find a way to get Anita’s attention before it’s too late.

The Stereo, Brandon Colas

Cedarville Review

No abstract provided.

Cane Burning Season, Ashley K. Berthelot

LSU Master's Theses

Short story collection.

The Bridge, Volume 2, 2005, Bridgewater State College

the bridge

Volume 2 Staff

Stacy Cohen
David George
Beth Horka
David Mitchell
Elizabeth Redmond
Nicole Roy
Kimberly Silva
Cheryllynn Silvia
Janine Woodward

Mary Dondero, Faculty Advisor
Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

In The Village Of Mourning, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Outside the Purulhá market, where the bus had left her, Olivia stared at the mountains to the north of town.

Squeeze The Putty, Mrs. Martin, Mike Onofrey

Bryant Literary Review

"Do you have a minute?" she said to Dwayne as he was coming out of his mother's hospital room at four in the afternoon.

Paris Sunrise, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

No abstract provided.

Horn Of Plenty, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

Julia Archer had just sat down in the Lexington Opera House lounge when a stranger slipped onto the sear beside her at the bar. He had on black pants and a black shirt like the orchestra's horn section wore, and he was carrying a battered instrument case.