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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
A Sister's Mythology, Robin Baudier
A Sister's Mythology, Robin Baudier
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Excerpts
Manuscripts
Excerpts from additional submissions by authors: Betty Lewis, Joseph C. Greenlee, Suzanne Weesner, Katherine Armstrong, and J. Wm. Lynn.
A Nightmare, Jane Burrin
A Nightmare, Jane Burrin
Manuscripts
The lake was unusually calm that particular June day, when my Mother and Father started on their daily fishing trip.
I bade them farewell from the dock, and reluctantly started back to the cottage. Although I did not have the patience for fishing, it seemed that there should be something more exciting to look forward to than a game of solitaire.
Resigning myself to this entertainment, I settled down on the screened porch with my cards and the radio. I played the necessary unsuccessful game, and my luck began to change. I triumphantly placed the last ace on the stack …
Ode To A Jukebox, Rosemary Haviland
Ode To A Jukebox, Rosemary Haviland
Manuscripts
Oh fat gleaming monster reposing in the corner
With your soul glowing like satan's fires,
Whence have you come to destroy life's peaceful existence;
To tempt youth and put new lines in the seers' brows?
Like the roaring blasting furnace, you require nourishment,
Taking pity on your pangs of hunger, I'll feed you a nickle,
Ungrateful one! There you sit with your polished sides gleaming,
Smug and satisfied like a fat Buddha.
Slowly you devour my offering,
And as it reaches your digestive system,
You gr--rr-owl and gr--rr-Ind;
Instead of a soft crooning thanks, you stab at me with a …
Frustrated Genius, Arthur Graham
Frustrated Genius, Arthur Graham
Manuscripts
He sits down at the desk, tears a sheet of paper out of a tablet, picks up a pencil, and commences. After commencing for some twenty minutes he decides that he should un-commence long enough to decide upon a subject upon which he can commence, Another twenty minutes pass during which he systemazically breaks the lead of his pencil, sharpens his pencil, turns the radio on, turns the radio off, takes his shoes off, puts his shoes on, musses up his hair, combs his hair, loosens his necktie, takes his necktie off, takes off his glasses, twirls his glasses around …
Oh, Pudgy!, Peggy O'Donnell
Oh, Pudgy!, Peggy O'Donnell
Manuscripts
Well, Pudgy, here we are on top of Maple Ridge. Isn't this the most splendiferous day? I can just lie here basking in the sun (as the Florida travel folders say), and you can sniff around and explore everything to your canine heart's content.
Yes, a spring day up here is wonderful, but I guess it will always be fall on the Ridge for me. Fall, with the maples all gold and red, and the sky all blue, you and me and .. .. and Bill.
'Member Bill, Pudgy? You used to love it when he rubbed your ears. He …
Shortages And Priorities, George Zainey
Shortages And Priorities, George Zainey
Manuscripts
The day is soon to come when the shortage of men will become so acute that our feminine sex is going to have to have a priority rating to get a date. This of course will be a great blow to our beautiful, energetic, and studious co-eds when they will have to tear a little coupon from their book, push it in the face of a "soon to be rare" man, and yell with anxiety and a gleam in their eyes, "You're mine tonight --oh boy!" It will be an equally tragic situation if the precious men should choose to …
An Era Was Past, Stuart Palmer
An Era Was Past, Stuart Palmer
Manuscripts
There sat the old station, all boarded up, and looking very much like a thing of the past. It had changed a lot in five years. It had changed from a place of activity, of hasty farewells and hearty receptions, to a dingy old building that nobody noticed now. Someday soon someone would come along and tear it down for the wood in it, and thus would end one of the most significant and colorful epics that the little town of Richfield Springs had ever witnessed.
Slowly I walked up the old brick path that led to the ancient structure, …
A Dime Novel, Arline Hyde
A Dime Novel, Arline Hyde
Manuscripts
Spying a red cover on a magazine at a newstand, a customer may pick it up and upon casual examination notice. the title LOVE blare in large print across the page. "A ten-story issue" the cover reads, with two featured articles entitled "Revenge Honeymoon" and "Hotel-Lobby Flirt." A blond cover-girI peers over her almost bare shoulder. "Hmm, looks interesting," thinks the customer and so another typical pulp magazine is sold for the small sum of one dime.
My Favorite Spot, Elizabeth Hyatt
My Favorite Spot, Elizabeth Hyatt
Manuscripts
About an hour and a half from nowhere in a. western woodland, a tiny cabin nestles among the trees. Nearby, a small brook runs clear and cold, babbling softly over the stones. Flowers flaunt their colors in a gay parade around the cabin.
Inside, the odor of clean, bare pine is strong and refreshing. The furniture is simple and sturdy. Its unpainted finish matches the walls and floor perfectly. In one corner, a double-decked bunk bed stands invitingly. The stone-hewn fireplace at the far side of the one room cabin leads a double life; it warms the occupants and cooks …
Winter Evening, Donald Rider
Winter Evening, Donald Rider
Manuscripts
As the year evolves, nature contemplates, nature broods, nature rants, and nature breathes the warm glow of spring. She may brood the noisy thunderstorm of summer, rant the early autumn squalls, and whisper with zephyrs the heralding of spring, but tonight she contemplates. Tonight she contemplates and her utter silence pervades the hunter's cabin.
Conversion, Jack Devine
Conversion, Jack Devine
Manuscripts
Mary Anna opened the door and saw her man. Her man was a hobo, looking for a bite to eat and possibly a pie which had been set on some ledge to cool.
Rambling Joe looked at the little girl and in his most polite manner, doffed his hat and said, "Little girl, I wonder if you would ask your ma if she could spare a man a bite to eat."
"My mother isn't here," Mary Anna replied, and puffing up with importance said, "if you will come in; maybe I can find something."
Mary Anna had just come bark …
Evolution, Jeanne Gass
Evolution, Jeanne Gass
Manuscripts
Lora Tiptoed across the bedroom stepping gingerly from one rug to another, avoiding the chilling touch of the hardwood floor. She fumbled in the closet and finally slipped her cold feet into sensible blue leather house-slippers. The heels clicked softly on the hall floor. She raised the window shade in the bathroom, and the half-light of the early morning added cheerless rays to the cold room. Lora gasped at the shock of cold water on her face, and her hands shook as she drew curlpins from her hair. She combed her hair hurriedly, and its electricity bristled about her shoulders …
It's Snowing, Lucy Kaufman
It's Snowing, Lucy Kaufman
Manuscripts
An icy wind lashed down from the north, snarling at the city. During most of the night it continued, and people winced under the frosty whip, while they offered platitudes concerning winter and its early art-Iva]. Shortly after midnight however, the gale subsided. Huge clouds rolled in over the fields and streets and houses, obscuring the stars and bringing the first snow of the season. Silently and steadily it fell, as window-panes and street lamps became fuzzy with the clinging white flakes. Trees and buildings exchanged sharp outlines for blurred shadows, and the snow-covered bushes faded into the snow-covered ground, …
Timeline, Robin K. Miller
A Story Of A Young Man In An Office With A View, Corey T. Katzelnick
A Story Of A Young Man In An Office With A View, Corey T. Katzelnick
The Mercury
No abstract provided.
Bottled, Stephen Lin
In The Presence Of Death, Kevin P. Lavery
Efemera, Mollie R. Sherman
Indifference, Paul A. Eppler
Infinite Islands: The Seatrees, Colin Christian Alan Mort
Infinite Islands: The Seatrees, Colin Christian Alan Mort
Doctoral Dissertations
Infinite Islands: The Seatrees investigates on the subject of infinity as it relates to storytelling and the novel. The critical introduction lays out the relation between reality, fantasy, the imagination and the history of the novel as a source of inspiration for the fictional portion of the dissertation. It considers the similarities between canonical literary novels and fantasy genre novels. Through this consideration, aspects of reality and fantasy in the novel are considered in both theoretical and primary texts. In the fictional portion, an unnamed narrator is retelling the story of his life from beginning to end. Although he works …
This Humbling River, Ryan Dean Woldruff
This Humbling River, Ryan Dean Woldruff
Doctoral Dissertations
This Humbling River follows the character of Carson Sellars as he returns to Dine, Missouri. “Structure and Fiction: Through the Lens of Hollywood Beat Sheets” is an essay about narrative structure in fiction and film. The essay discusses various structural models, specifically looking at Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! structure as a potential model for fiction writing.
The Fairy Fairytale, Daria Ivanova
Firewater, Morgan Albertson
Stories, Garrett Alden Ashley
Stories, Garrett Alden Ashley
Master's Theses
These short stories represent different genres, forms, ideals, and times. This collection contains the weird, the scientific, the fantastical, and settings that are real. The problems faced by the characters are a product of each story's genre, but the willingness of its characters to overcome change remains the same. In one story, a man wants to get rid of his mechanical daughter because she reminds him of his wife. In another, a man takes care of his brother who has returned from the dead as a pig. In others, a man believes his wife is trying to kill him, a …
Collected Short Stories, Arthur Ross Walton
Collected Short Stories, Arthur Ross Walton
Master's Theses
In this collection of short fiction, I draw upon the experience of growing up in a small southern town and my work as a researcher with the Center for Oral History to reach beyond the stereotypes and create a more accurate portrayal of life in Mississippi.
There are two central themes touched on in these stories. The first I call “Occupational Obsolescence” and delves into the tensions created when a person’s (or community’s) livelihood is taken away for reasons beyond their control. The second, “The Outsider Within,” considers the question of how a person can be a resident of a …
A More Perfect World, Amy Katherine Mayo
A More Perfect World, Amy Katherine Mayo
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
A More Perfect Worldis the story of Gabriel Garcia Levine Connolly, an intelligent, charismatic, and idealistic man who invents "Thing," which quickly becomes indispensable to virtually everyone in the world. His new-found wealth presents him with the opportunity to create a community that suits his values and his creative process, taking several friends and co-workers with him. Their search for a new home leads them to the idyllic island of Luu Saabhel; for Gabe, the opportunity to protect this small island and its indigenous people while creating "a more perfect world" for his own community is the ideal situation.
The …
Before You Knew Me, Isabel Ontiveros
Before You Knew Me, Isabel Ontiveros
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
My thesis is a collection of short stories titledBefore You Knew Me. The collection centers on people whose lives have been affected by addiction or loneliness. Families attempt to get through adversities and piece together the fragments of a life they once had. Happiness for both the adults and the children depends on their ability to resist the cycle of dysfunction and the pressures of their peers.
The collection begins with a Gothic story about an abduction. My story "Goldfish" was inspired by Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," where a young girl meets a …
Dead Dad Project, Adrian Mcbride
Dead Dad Project, Adrian Mcbride
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A creative work of fiction centered around two friends. The work takes place during their senior year of high school, and investigates how their friendship is changed during the course of that year.
Bandera, Cesareo, A Refuge Of Lies: Reflections On Faith And Fiction. East Lansing, Mi: Msu Press, 2013, Andrew J. Mckenna
Bandera, Cesareo, A Refuge Of Lies: Reflections On Faith And Fiction. East Lansing, Mi: Msu Press, 2013, Andrew J. Mckenna
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A review is presented of Bandera, Cesareo, A Refuge of Lies: Reflections on Faith and Fiction. East Lansing, MI: MSU Press, 2013 (viii, 156 pp.) ISBN: 978-1-60917-378-4. $19.95.