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Under Night's Darkness, Alexandra Fiege Ore
Under Night's Darkness, Alexandra Fiege Ore
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Under Night’s Darkness follows Landry, who has recently been paroled from prison and returns to his family home in rural Montana. He has recently become a born-again Christian and is in the midst of a frantic final attempt to redeem himself after a lifetime dedicated to bullying and cruelty. He’s not only haunted by the specters of domestic abuse and sexual assault, but also by the ghosts of the recently dead. Enraged at the failure of his tragicomic attempts at redemption, Landry commits the sadistic murder of his own brother. The ensuing cycle of revenge destroys Landry’s family and Landry …
The Curiosociety, Luke G. Smith
The Curiosociety, Luke G. Smith
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Gigi, Helen Wesley Kapp
Gigi, Helen Wesley Kapp
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Francis’s grandpa taught her how to wrestle alligators. By the time Francis was sixteen, she could hold her own, but all it takes is one gator. Just one gator who almost gets the best of you, and suddenly you’ve got a dead animal; somebody’s getting stitches; you’re getting haunted by the ghost of the alligator you just killed; and your mom’s making you move to Charleston to attend a swanky prep school where the kids don’t wrestle gators, but surviving the gossip is even harder.
Son Of Red Earth Or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Son Of Red Earth Or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In a collection of fictional short stories, Triple Double Diamond explores the relationships and grit of people who dwell in the Nevadan landscape. The stories roam between neon cities like Reno and Las Vegas to small high-desert towns like Wells and Gerlach, focusing on the people who live within these places. The people in this collection are restaurant servers, fur trappers, part- time gold miners, gamblers, park rangers, and veterans, and the stories look at the inner lives of these characters.
A Reflection On A Dhc Senior Project: "Silvie Danger", Breann Watterson
A Reflection On A Dhc Senior Project: "Silvie Danger", Breann Watterson
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
This is a reflection about an Honors College Research Project. The project was a work of historical fiction concerning the coming-of-age of a young woman in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Beak Doctor, Bryn L. Agnew
Beak Doctor, Bryn L. Agnew
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Beak Doctor is an excerpt from a novel in progress concerning the life of Brennan Madigan as he grows up in northeastern Ireland and later works as a plague doctor in Venice during the Thirty Years War. The excerpt's primary themes are loss, madness, mythology, religion, and mortality.