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Gandal Syllabus English 320, Advanced Fiction Writing, Keith Gandal

Open Educational Resources

Students in this course will learn the art of writing and rewriting short stories.

Every Day's A Good Day, Bill Elgersma

Pro Rege

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The Jubilant City Almanac: Stories, Azaria Brown

Graduate Thesis Collection

The Jubilant City Almanac is a collection of short stories set in the magical Jubilant City, a city founded by a group of Black women in 1736. These stories bridge the whimsical and magical with the realities of poverty, classicism, addiction, abuse and health disparities. “Got His Alligator” follows the journey of two codependent addicts as they try to get their fashion designs onto Jubilant City’s premiere drama, Girl, Please. The characters in “Carbon Copy” use a magical phone to bring Denzel Washington to the city. “Jeremiah the Conqueror” summons Black American folk legend, High John. THrough an exploration of …

The Perpetual Harvest, Joseph Cifelli

Senior Theses and Projects

My intention for this project was to create a fantasy setting that, in presenting pieces of itself, from oblique angles, opens up the world to stories and myths beyond those I’ve provided. The foundation is the introductory guide, which details the primary social, economic, and supernatural mechanisms of the setting. The following stories are meant to play off the guide, exploring tones, voices, and plots implied or ignored by its limited perspective. I was heavily inspired by Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher short story collections, which blend the magic and mundane aspects of fantasy beautifully.

The Dazzled Rope Of Lightning Against The Cloud Is Not The Downward Bolt But The Compelled Upstroke Through The Heated Ether: Stories, Jack S. Muth

Senior Projects Fall 2023

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

The Romanian Goodbye, Andrei Dumitriu

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

Mosaico De Fantasía: A Collection Of Microrrelatos And Short Stories, Jennifer Gutierrez

Theses and Dissertations

Art is subjective, as is the art of writing. Creating a piece of writing out of a fleeting thought is truly the most frightening yet fulfilling feeling there is for a writer. Entire universes with their own unique worlds, aesthetic verses littered with imagery to paint an intricate mental picture; each representing a brief scenario that my mind decided to fabricate out of nothingness. Though not everyone will love my work, my goal is to reach someone that might. Even if it’s just one person. I want them to read my work and think “This is pretty cool.” My …

Hanakatsura: The Works Of Famous Literary Women In Japan, Tei Fujiu (Trans.), Kaho Miyake, Ichiyo Higuchi, Usurai Kitada, Otsuka Kusuo, Paul Royster (Ed.)

Zea E-Books Collection

Originally published in Tokyo in 1903, Hanakatsura (literally “garland of flowers”) features a biographical sketch of the activist and author Kishida Toshiko (Baroness Nakajima) plus four short stories by Japanese women writers of the Meiji era:

Akebonozome: A Cloth Dyed in Rainbow Colors, by Kaho Miyake

Ōtsugomori: The Last Day of the Year, by Ichiyo Higuchi

Onisenbiki: The Thousand Devils, by Usurai Kitada (Mrs. Kajita)

Shinobine, by Otsuka Kusuo

Compiled and translated by Tei Fujiu, four memorable and affecting stories depict women experiencing the frustrations of traditional family roles within an emergent commercial society at the turn of the century. …

The Advantage Of An Iterative Writing Process For Novels And Short Stories, Annie Jackson

Masters Theses

Many writers struggle with completing a novel when they follow the traditional process of working through plot, character and world building problems in prewriting activities followed by sitting and drafting the story in a linear process scene by scene and chapter by chapter. This thesis proposes an alternate iterative approach. Iterative drafting creates multiple smaller versions of the full story that build to a first draft. By moving several problem solving activities into the draft itself writers can find increased opportunity for quick analysis, low effort corrections and a more efficient drafting method. This thesis lays out the description and …

Treeing: What Remains Of A Pilgrim, Sichen Liu

Masters Theses

Myths and legends have existed since the start of human civilization, but now we can only imagine a world full of wonders from our ancestor’s scripts. What if we could go back to the age of myths and magic? Would we see things differently?

In Treeing: What Remains of a Pilgrim, I propose a fictional book with 15 short myths of humans transformed into trees. The stories combine my own imagination with inspiration from real mythologies. In the annotations of each story, an unnamed person is following the myths as guidance and manuals, one by one, trying to bring them …

Review Of The Man Who Thought Himself A Woman, Ed Christopher Looby, Carrie D. Shanafelt

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

Christopher Looby's anthology of queer nineteenth-century American short stories is a fascinating collection of both obscure and familiar texts that together constitute a powerful argument for the queerness of the short story and for the centrality of queerness to American literary aesthetics.

A Collection Of Suitable For Publication Short Stories, Rhett Milner

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

The start of this creative project came about as a challenge for myself to both polish and refine pieces of short fiction I’ve worked on during my time at the University of Nebraska at Omaha while also becoming involved in the deeper world of publication and literary magazines. The form of short fiction I sought to delve into was a contemporary branch of literary realism, often in the style and footsteps of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, James Baldwin, and many others. The next step I took was searching for literary magazines in which my work could be published. Literary magazines …

A Bag Of Marbles, Cora Saddler

Honors Theses

A short story collection that takes inspiration from the magical mundanities of everyday life.

Can I Use The Restroom?, Brenida Thompson

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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The Blue Chip Cafe: Feeding Nostalgia, Julia Croston

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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83 Bridge St, Saint Augustine, Fl 32084, Erin Kelbaugh

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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A Small Story Of A Commercial Building In St. Augustine, Fl, Stephanie Giordano

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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Wallpaper, Andrew Morrison

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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164 Palmo, Ashley Cozad

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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Central Ave., Adam Drawdy

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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92 Washington Street Writing, Ashlyn Davidson

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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The Secret Stories Of 116 Central Avenue, Ashley Harman

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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The Castle Of Lincolnville, Joshua Smith

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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The Shoe Shiners', Denai Laster

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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The Hidden Roles Of Props, Alexandria Kledzik

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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A Breeze Through The Window, Olivia Brown

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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The Wall That Looks, Bobbi Hudson

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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Bacon And____Undertakers, Charlie Ewing

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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De Haven Street Irregulars, Sydney Shomer

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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Frank Butler And Central Avenue, Natalie Medina

Touring Lincolnville: A Celebration of Historic Black Business

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