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Existential Bebop, Brett Kaplan
Existential Bebop, Brett Kaplan
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
EXISTENTIAL BEBOP is a collection of thirteen short stories that use humor and satire to address some of the absurdities of human existence.
In some stories, characters are forced to come to terms with mortality, such as the six-year-old boy in “A Goldfish Memory,” who learns about death for the first time. In “Cassandra Knows All” a rational twenty-something is lured by a charlatan who convinces her that there is an afterlife. In others, the comedy centers on human frailties, such as “Weekend in Deceit,” where two couples confront infidelity. “The Sacrifice of Mikey Horowitz” explores family values, ancient and …
Whatever It Is We're Competing For, Ferris W. Mcdaniel
Whatever It Is We're Competing For, Ferris W. Mcdaniel
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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Dinner At Eight, Anastasia M. Berkovich
Dinner At Eight, Anastasia M. Berkovich
MSU Graduate Theses
This creative thesis is comprised of six short stories of fiction in various styles and lengths, as well as a critical introduction wherein I discuss the various influences on my work, ranging from Charles Baxter and Karen Joy Fowler to Doležel and John Gardner. All of these stories share a theme of family and loss. Each story also grapples in some way with changing times and places. I have endeavored, by using rhyming action, repeating images, and melodrama, to give each story a great sense of emotion, a feeling both specific to the story but connects to the wider reading …
Dream Variations: Fictional Views Of The School To Prison Pipeline, Kierstin R. C. Anderson
Dream Variations: Fictional Views Of The School To Prison Pipeline, Kierstin R. C. Anderson
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
These two works of fiction will tell the story of the school to prison pipeline taken from the black and white of statistics and numbers into the colors of the individual; their thoughts, feelings, and motivations. Dream Variations is the telling of one instance in the lives of different people, both the Black American youth who go through it and the lawyers who see their cases.
Tygr 2017: Student Art And Literary Magazine, Brianna Rose, Luke Jungermann, William Greiner, Jill Forrestal
Tygr 2017: Student Art And Literary Magazine, Brianna Rose, Luke Jungermann, William Greiner, Jill Forrestal
TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine Archives (1985-2017)
TYGR is the student art and literary magazine for Olivet Nazarene University
Theme: Vision.
[Historical Muse] The Tyger -- William Blake, p. iii.
Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh
Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh
Senior Projects Spring 2017
In my works, I tried very hard to create characters with unusual perspectives. I wanted to write from the point of view of children, while avoiding anything overly precious or intentionally naive. The trauma of aging, and eventually dying, are the themes for these works. I attempted to draw forth unusual and thought-provoking imagery that could successfully draw my reader into a constructed reality and, hopefully, draw them to less common questions we might ask regarding human nature.
Undertow - A Collection Of Short Stories, Phoebe Tess Present
Undertow - A Collection Of Short Stories, Phoebe Tess Present
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
A Monstrous Tomorrow, Ty Noel
Wearing Bare Feet, J. P. Schlottman
Wearing Bare Feet, J. P. Schlottman
Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones
Wearing Bare Feet is a linked collection of wry short stories about a family of three on fictional Eel Island, three miles off the coast of Maine, an island that revolves around lobstering, tourism, billionaire movie stars, department store heirs, jewelry store heiresses, people who houseclean for snowbirds ... and the old, rich and entitled summer people who come back from Florida for the annual Fourth of July Parade, and then die. Because it is easier to die there. It is why the 13-mile-long "rock off America" has more ambulances per capita than anywhere else in New England.
It also …