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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.

Unable To Locate A Fire, Lily Isabel Taggart

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

Heritole, Rayelle Damarus Cato

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

This project is the first few chapters of my novel in progress titled “Heritole”. The story is in the perspective of Nia Sinclair telling the story of when she attended her first year of Datiam Academy, one of the most prestigious schools for (Obsidite) witches. With the help of her new friends, Devyn and Medora, they help her navigate her first year and prepare for The Game, a competition where witches face off to see who is the best witch amongst them. Nia must make the decision …

The Strangeness Of Being Alive, Marxe Altman Orbach

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

Coup De Grâce, Violet Rea Mass

Senior Projects Spring 2023

This project, composed of an introduction and a fiction piece, explores the complex power dynamics at play on the university stage put into perspective of the Human Rights study. The fiction follows young Olive as arrives for her first term at a university in a secluded valley where she must come to terms with a darkness greater than she had ever imagined.

A City In Gray Outlines, Tamar Tsiana Mayer-Deangelis

Senior Projects Spring 2023

A host of characters struggle to navigate the isolating world of a city under the regime of the Forces, a military police organization. Together or alone, they seek out meaning in their own lives and the city around them. The world seems a heavy weight to bear, but there is brightness within it to be pulled to the surface if only people are willing to try.

By The Rivers Of Babylon We Sat Down And Wept, Sarah Ann Hudes

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

The Others, Marquel Horton

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

Imposter: A Graphic Novel, Cam R. Goldberg

Senior Projects Spring 2023

When we dream of running away, where do we run to, and what finds us there?

I’ve wanted to run away from home since I was little. I dreamed of flying, of escaping to other worlds, and of finding them before they found me. Imposter is a story that’s been in progress for a long time. Sally, the main character, was created in high school, but the themes have been there, coming up in different ways, throughout my life. Every year I find a new way to escape, and that’s ok - sometimes you need a break.

I think it’s …

To Hell With Good Intentions, Dashiell Martin Charlesworth

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

The Godshard's Word, Ari Mackoff

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A kabbalistic, speculative novella that loosely reimagines the biblical Jonah story, set in the mid-1500s in a world with an alternate gender framework. Explores concepts of Jewish textuality and canonizing, and the pushback against the divine call that characterizes certain Tanakhic figures.

The Barbed Wire Boy, Laurent Alexander Brodie

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

Y Seguimos Volando, Gabriela Sabogal

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

An Attempted Liberation Of The Soul, Nicholas Galluzzi

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A fictional fantastical story set in a magical post-apocalypse, about the perspective character Constantine, who hears a voice in his head one day, telling him to improve his situation and run away from the responsibilities his dystopia has given him. In the resulting journey, trust and moral certainty are the most valuable resources.

Skyward, Christian R. Griffin

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

Legends Of Zamour, Miranda F. Hall

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

This project is a selection of chapters and excerpts from Part I of a fantastical novel that has existed in my imagination for a few years and is finally being brought to fruition. The novel follows an eighteen year old boy named Ansel Burnett and his contemporaries Michelle Payson and Felix Santos as they enter a prestigious Institute for warriors and attempt to apprehend a powerful emerging criminal before she enacts war.

Blurb: For as long as he could remember, Ansel Burnett dreamt of becoming a Guardian, …

Signs To Stop, Finn Tait

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Take this as a Sign-

At night it is so much easier to believe a story. There is a forgiveness at night, an expanding of what might be possible. I first learned how to tell stories in the dark, from listening to my dad's voice as I drifted off to sleep, from the whispered voices of my friends around a fire, from the car tape player on a long drive home. It is easy to imagine that something terrible stands just beyond the headlight's reach, looks back at you from your dark bathroom mirror, or lurks just behind your bedroom …

The Leatherman And Other Short Stories, Sophia Joy Slezak

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

Electric Snake, David Y. Liang

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A blend of fantastic, noir, and cyberpunk elements. Prose.

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

Impressions On The American Cowboy: End Of The Trail, Ghost Town And Rough Men, Jude Edmund Markey-Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2022

“Impressions on the American Cowboy” seeks to consider, expose, and investigate the symbol of the cowboy in our culture–– in all of its twisted romance. After reflecting on my personal experiences as well as various historical texts and works of western fiction, I set out to make my own western-themed work. My intention is to comment and explore the so-called “man problem” across disciplines in live performed time and space. This work attempts to think critically about how and why cowboy culture has persisted, and to delve into this particular and troubling projection of masculine consciousness.

This Is The Sky That I See, Gavin T. Mckenzie

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This is the sky that I see, a Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College, reflects the power we hold in defining and redefining spaces, and how ordinary places can be reimagined for the Othered body. I produced this show to allow the characters to shape and decide their worlds, centering on their relationships and feelings. This is the sky that I see establishes a completely queer world that centers Queer joy and friendship.

Nectar Of The Sleepless Dead, Grace Frances Mcnally

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

Nectar of the Sleepless Dead is a retelling of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone set in the world of a Gothic monster novel where godhood comes at a high price and many seek their immortality through unsavory means. The social order of Olympia is thrown into chaos when Hades, the greatly feared ruler of the Necropolis, makes his first public appearance since wartime with unknown motives. Kore, daughter of Demeter, has been living a double life under the pseudonym "Persephone" and soon finds herself caught …

Incipient Adulthood: Fragments Of Student Life, Natasha Clement Cameron

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Sickos, Simon Prescott Dimock

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Sickos is a story about cars and monsters.

Birdwork, Masha Alexeevna Kurbatova

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Runaway holograms, dead clowns, hyper-urbanization, love triangles, illegal farm settlements, goth kids turned tech bros, and lots of rats: birdwork is a novella about a city dweller stuck in the forest who can’t quite escape ghosts of the past. The ghosts aren’t real, but they still draw blood.

The Language Of Loss, Liam Ainslie Mayo

Senior Projects Spring 2021

After an old man, Jeremy Haskell, dies in a small town, the people important in his life have to reckon with what his passing means for them. Three in particular receive letters from his death bed: Abigail, the woman who took over the hunting store that he ran, Rys, his grandchild, and Randolph, the Grim Reaper with whom he shared a long and mysterious past. Through the letters, those three come to a new understanding of who Jeremy was, and the place he had in all of their lives.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of …

Child Ballads: Folk Songs And Stories From The New World, Brian Gabriel Watko

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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

Basement Girls, Skylar Hauge

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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

Suburban Panic, Ella Ania Baldwin

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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

This Terrible Thing, Ari Ray Trubey Agnew

Senior Projects Spring 2021

This Terrible Thing is a story about abuse, control, and the danger of letting your love define you. It's also a story about vampires.