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The Language Of Breathing, Brian Wallace Baker
The Language Of Breathing, Brian Wallace Baker
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Language of Breathing is an eclectic collection of 18 creative nonfiction essays that capture moments from the author’s life and attempt to give them meaning through narrative and metaphor. They deal with relationships, nature, faith, and often rely on background research to pair art, mythology, current events, and science with personal experience.
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Dark Magic Part 1, Rachel Quaid
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Dark Magic is a novel that mixes old folklore with fantasy and a splash of modern day. This first part of the novel readies the readers to enter the world of the old Irish Aos Sì. Ophelia is a witch, living in the land of the fae. She signs up to help with a research study to better her chances at succeeding as a healer. Rhea is a member of the Tuatha de Danann, the fae folk who rule the land from their courts of old. She is sent by her caretaker to observe this study. Everyone knows witches and …
Arizhio: Tales Of Glorious Manifest Destiny, Clinton Craig
Arizhio: Tales Of Glorious Manifest Destiny, Clinton Craig
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a book of short stories with a critical introduction. In theme, the stories seek to find the border between the Midwest and the Southwest of America by focusing on Ohio and Arizona. Some of the stories seek to exemplify “experimental” fiction, while the critical introduction seeks to define “experimental.” In addition, the introduction theorizes about the role of setting in linking collections and characterization.
Heaven's Disco Dances, Savannah Leigh Osbourn
Heaven's Disco Dances, Savannah Leigh Osbourn
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Heaven’s Disco Dances is a collection of poetry about finding identity through defamiliarization and displacing oneself from reality to better understand it. Within the literary community, there is a great deal of derision toward writing that fails to be “real” or “serious” enough, and poetry is an excellent example of how sometimes the extraordinary speaks to us in ways that realistic fiction cannot. The marvelous and fantastic might serve as an escape from the world, but not necessarily from reality. Rather, they give readers a different lens on life, and sometimes that makes it a more powerful one, because people …
Quickness, Hunter Conner
Quickness, Hunter Conner
Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing
No abstract provided.
2015 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
2015 Jim Wayne Miller Contest Winners, Creative Writing Committee
Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing
No abstract provided.
Anglofile, Kaci Carpenter
Anglofile, Kaci Carpenter
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Anny Sterling is stuck. After a freak accident that left her father disabled and without a steady income, she returned home after one semester of college to help pay the bills while her older sister Emily fled to Europe to spend her time chasing dark-haired men named Franco and Pablo. At twenty-five, Anny now spends her days at the local insurance agency running errands for other people and reciting the alphabet song in the file room. There’s little to no hope for advancement as she is short the required college hours to qualify for even an associate degree, but she …
Grit Line, Kimberly Jo Reynolds
Grit Line, Kimberly Jo Reynolds
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
No abstract provided.
Dnd Pantoum, Brittany Szabo
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Wku Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Wku Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Student Creative Writing
No abstract provided.
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University