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Maybe Mermaids And Robots Are Lonely: 40 Stories And A Novella, Matthew Fogarty
Maybe Mermaids And Robots Are Lonely: 40 Stories And A Novella, Matthew Fogarty
Theses and Dissertations
Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely comprises 40 stories and a novella all set in or around Detroit and featuring figures that have become almost legendary in American culture. Stories in the collection range in form from a more traditional, if quirky, realism to a somewhat more ethereal or slipstream or magical realism. In the title story, for example, we meet a pair of star-crossed lovers, a robot and a mermaid, who must find a way to bridge their different worlds. "Rollo is Rollo" is a more realist play on the Cain and Abel, good brother-bad brother story. There's an …
The Lonely Empire, Andrew Valencia
The Lonely Empire, Andrew Valencia
Theses and Dissertations
This creative manuscript contains ten original short stories dealing with themes of alienation, imperialism, and cultural intersectionality. Though they are all influenced, in one way or another, by ideas of cultural and sociopolitical relevance, they are to be read and viewed primarily as stories, i.e., as self-contained exercises in character, plot, and language that can be appreciated for their artistic merits as well as their academic contributions. The diverse settings of the stories, ranging from Ancient Greece to Central California and from Asia to Latin America, are a reflection of the author‘s own diverse cultural experiences. In one story, a …
Stars Collaged Of Gases (Or, We Are Not Lonely Anymore), Josh English
Stars Collaged Of Gases (Or, We Are Not Lonely Anymore), Josh English
Theses and Dissertations
This work seeks to reconcile a variety of epistemological perspectives. Through six distinct sections, the poems in this book consider personal experience, science, poetics, and more. The book seeks to arrive at a place where uncertainty offers equal if not greater value than certainty in epistemological terms.
Counterfeiters, Brandon Rushton
Counterfeiters, Brandon Rushton
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an examination of region. More specifically, it is about the physical and psychological landscapes these characters find themselves having to exist in. This book examines the liminality of the local; this is very much about thresholds. Rather than examining what exists beyond the threshold, this book considers the forces that drive us to one. This is a book about regional stasis and how, in some instances, stasis can transform itself into suppression. The enclosed environment of community can create this suppression, this contractive or almost gravitational hold the place has on the people who inhabit it. This …
Natural Predators, Marie-Claire Churchouse
Natural Predators, Marie-Claire Churchouse
Theses and Dissertations
Natural Predators is a collection of short stories that take place in various countries including Japan, Russia, Hong Kong, and England. Though the stories are not explicitly linked, they share themes of violence, power dynamics, and the failures of community. The collection begins with the story that features the youngest protagonist, and ends with the eldest. Food, animals, and the human relationship with nature are also major themes throughout the collection.
A Grenade Of Paper Flowers: A Collection Of Poems, Melissa Dugan
A Grenade Of Paper Flowers: A Collection Of Poems, Melissa Dugan
Theses and Dissertations
A Grenade of Paper Flowers is a collection of poems of varying forms, styles, and lengths that explores the themes of love, identity, sexuality, violence, and constructed meaning.
Bottomfeeders, William Linn
Bottomfeeders, William Linn
Theses and Dissertations
Bottomfeeders is a collection of short fiction. It includes stories concerning life, death, hoboes, wrestling, videogames, and cropdusters, among other things. It is both very serious and impossibly dumb, as is the way of things.