Creative Writing Commons^™

Disintegration And Other Stories, Brian Araque Pérez

Senior Projects Spring 2020

"Disintegration and Other Stories" is a collection of fictional short stories accompanied by two translations written originally by two iconic Latin American writers. The stories although fictional, are both deeply personal and distant from my own life.

“Tell Me I Did Well” And Other Things Left Unsaid, Shirley X H Cheng

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of short stories built around a disease that turns you into a stone flower. The stories explore sadness, loneliness and helplessness and the ultimate effects that can have on people.

Last Call: I'M Never Drinking Again And Other Lies I'Ve Told Myself, Oona G. Oglesby

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This is a work of creative nonfiction documenting a girls journey with sobriety.

Heaven Is A Hot Tub, Charlotte Catherine Foreman

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A lot of people don’t know that most of what America considers “Florida”– the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward, & Palm Beach – was underwater before it was developed. The unadulterated marshland of the Everglades flooded everything south of Orlando. On some days, so many wading birds crowded the air above that you couldn’t even see the sky. Fast forward about a century, & half of the marsh has been drained with the help of dredges, levees & canals. 90% of the wading birds are gone, but the snowbirds from the northeast, biding out retirement on the beach, have replaced …

A Troop, A Raft, A Bed, Hanna Jane Guendel

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A Troop, a Raft, a Bed tells the interwoven fictional stories of three major animals (the mountain gorilla, the Adélie penguin, and the American eel) and four transitional animals (the white stork, the humpback whale, the common octopus, and the great white shark). The stories are told from the animals' perspectives, and are written with language that considers each animal's unique intelligence, mind, and behavior. These stories seek to communicate how animals around the world may be experiencing the various effects of climate change and global warming.

Journal, Untitled, Angelo Chammah

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This journal has no owner.
It is simply out there.
It belongs to me, it belongs to you.
It is about personal moments but universal experiences.
What do you see when you drive with the window open?
What can you find in your own house?
What light is on at midnight?

Angelo Chammah

Victory Conditions, Alyssa May White

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Follow a not-scientist as she bluffs her way onto a research vessel in the Caribbean and into a world of data, research, and the unknown.

Softshell, Jamie Gray Chandler Gillette

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Softshell is a nonfiction project composed in hybrid forms. The narrative uses records produced by the body as well as those stored within the body — fossils, personal photographs, familiar sensations, instinctive gestures — to weave a story about a mother, as told by her daughter.

Pre-Professional, Sophia C. Doctoroff

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Sonya Sternberg, a former pre-professional ballet student, must navigate a new life and a shattered sense of self after an emotional breakdown forces her to leave the dance world in this eight-hour semi-autobiographical limited drama series. The action toggles back and forth between periods of Sonya’s life: her darkly eccentric and at times endearingly quirky childhood in suburban upstate New York, her deliriously joyous year as a ballet student in New York City, her tortured teenage years, and her soul-searching time at a rural New York college.

No Stranger Than You, Rebekah Rose Sicari

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

The Dells, Brittany Michele Fleming

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

In Window Tree: A Novel And Three Fables, Jack Pagliante

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A young man begins to remember his childhood when he finds a child asleep in a fallen tree.

Joe, Who Drives A Taxi Cab, Matthew J. Robinson-Wrobel

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

Catch Hell Blues, Nick Jebsen

Senior Projects Spring 2020

My novella features four friends attempting to navigate the transition between high school and adulthood while coming of age in the midst of political turmoil and an American epidemic of substance misuse. They attend a house party, inebriate, and drive around Los Angeles in a 1996 BMW 7 series while waxing philosophic about God, free-will, and beauty. After purchasing more alcohol, they vandalize a Confederate flag, which incites a road-rage incident. The second half of the novella details their separation from one another and struggles with personal loss and substance abuse.

Cicadas & Other Hauntings, Miriam J. Anastasi

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

The Veilmakers, Emily Nicole Giangiulio

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

American Looking: A Collection Of Personal Essays On The Middle East, Genevieve Dominique Chiola

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of personal essays which are theoretically and thematically grounded in concepts of the Middle East as constructed, deconstructed, and rebuilt in the mind of an American

In The Shadows And Folds, Julia Mueller

Senior Projects Spring 2020

In the shadows and folds is the result of a mental scavenger hunt that I began this past year, to uncover myself and find what is hidden in my crevices. It was spurred by my fear of memory loss which had grown to such a size that it sat visible in the back of my mind unaddressed for some time. The reason for this fear is not large but it feels monumental. I have been existing in various states of sadness and disconnect, which have acted like a thick blanket over my mind. This blanket is simultaneously protective and damaging, …

Letter Blocks, Lukas Graham Hemmer

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of prose and poetry exploring language as a material object.

The Night Long Dance, Anna Laura Grace Falvey

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

West West West, Michael Blackmon

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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