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Snapshot, Misty Yarnall 2022 SUNY Geneseo

Snapshot, Misty Yarnall

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Dog Names, El J. Ayala 2022 SUNY Purchase

Dog Names, El J. Ayala

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Leslie Pietrzyk's Admit This To No One: A Review, Alison DiCesare 2022 SUNY Geneseo

Leslie Pietrzyk's Admit This To No One: A Review, Alison Dicesare

Gandy Dancer Archives

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An Interview With Leslie Pietrzyk, Maria Pawlak 2022 SUNY Geneseo

An Interview With Leslie Pietrzyk, Maria Pawlak

Gandy Dancer Archives

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What The Dead Know By Act Three, Marianne Jay Erhardt 2022 SUNY Geneseo

What The Dead Know By Act Three, Marianne Jay Erhardt

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Vicissitudes, Lara Young 2022 Butler University

The Vicissitudes, Lara Young

Graduate Thesis Collection

On the surface, Julia's life at middle age seems calm and settled. Her children are grown; she's got plenty of friends and family; and her marriage has survived a betrayal. But when she unexpectedly receives a text from an old flame, one by one the certitudes she's come to rely on start to unravel and Julia's is forced to reckon anew with the meaning of her life and her place in the world.


The Screen And Development: Creative Writing And Liminality In Children’S Literature, Rebecca E. Glenn 2022 Clemson University

The Screen And Development: Creative Writing And Liminality In Children’S Literature, Rebecca E. Glenn

All Theses

This creative thesis strives to research and implement the overlap of liminality found within Children’s Literature, especially those works that exist through the screen. The critical component of this thesis explores the ways in which childhood development and maturity, a theme commonly found within Children’s Literature, embodies its own “right of passage” associated with the liminal. The journey of the Children’s Literature protagonist is often wrought with this movement from familiar boundaries to a sense of new development. The critical analysis emphasizes the methods Children’s Literature genre uses emotion, familial connections, symbology, space, and even elements of the monstrous to …


100 Million, Cade Scott 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

100 Million, Cade Scott

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Alec, an 18-year-old filmmaker, decides to bunk with a group of TikTok stars in a mansion in the suburbs of LA in hopes of becoming as famous as them one day. But, he soon finds out that they plan to keep him behind the scenes. Forced to continue helping them film and post their videos, he starts witnessing shady events involving his step-brother, Kevin. The events reach a crescendo when some of the TikTok stars accidentally disappear. Alec investigates and discovers a sinister plot, and then he finds himself in a fight for his life. Which ends with him narrowly …


The Rain Over Hanoi: A Personal Project About Screenplay Structure, Story, Representation And Intergenerational Struggle, Joan Moua 2022 California State University – San Bernardino

The Rain Over Hanoi: A Personal Project About Screenplay Structure, Story, Representation And Intergenerational Struggle, Joan Moua

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

A good screenplay is first and foremost a good story. Elements of a good story include compelling characters, a theoretical structure, and a well-executed premise. The Rain Over Hanoi is an extremely intimate and personal project about an Asian American expat living in Vietnam. Our protagonist’s journey and coming of age is explored via the interactions she has with her old and new family. Communication through food, symbolism, and cultural exchange are also present throughout the screenplay, utilizing a realistic point of view for the benefit of a full story submersion experience to the reader/viewer. Themes of self-exploration, growing up, …


A Letter About Philadelphia, Gracie Morrison 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

A Letter About Philadelphia, Gracie Morrison

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Gracie is an undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Soil and Water Science in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences. She writes in her free time and is taking a creative writing course for fun. She wants to improve her writing so she can write plays and perform them in a puppet theatre using sock puppets. She also wants to write Christmas movies but has only written one so far. For now, she is planning to graduate after she completes her Honors thesis project regarding economic analysis of organic and conventional tomato weed management strategies.


Aspects Of Amelie, Allison Flory 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Aspects Of Amelie, Allison Flory

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Allison Flory (she/her) is a senior creative writing undergrad at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she resides with her partner and their two dogs. Her work “Ecology of Succession” has been featured in Issue #3 of The Diamond Line, where she has also worked as an editor. She also once wrote a 200 page novel about Clifford the Big Red Dog on loose leaf notebook paper, but she was 9 and is pretty sure this was copyright infringement.


Two People Sitting On The Edge Of The Universe Sharing A Sandwich, Bia Edwards 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Two People Sitting On The Edge Of The Universe Sharing A Sandwich, Bia Edwards

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Bia is a senior creative writing major. She enjoys complicated and expensive iced lattes and taking her dog to the dog park. She loves reading and writing fiction as well as poetry and hopes to find a job involving both upon graduation.


The Girl With The Colorful Aura, Heather Jenkins 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Girl With The Colorful Aura, Heather Jenkins

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Heather Jenkins is studying psychology at the University of Arkansas. She plans on being an art therapist, combining her passion for art with the joy of helping others.


The Voyeur, Marie Gray 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Voyeur, Marie Gray

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Marie Gray is a writer and poet studying English with a concentration in creative writing at the University of Arkansas, where she is about to complete a short fiction honors thesis. When she’s not reading or writing, she spends her time watching foreign films and playing ultimate frisbee.


An Unbothered Cat, David Moneymaker 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

An Unbothered Cat, David Moneymaker

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

David Moneymaker is a sophomore and bassist in a local rock n roll band. Minimalism is a primary inspiration for his creative endeavors.


Table Of Contents, Diamond Line Editors 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Table Of Contents, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Diamond Line - Spring 2022, Diamond Line Editors 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Diamond Line - Spring 2022, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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A Reflection On Time, Samuel Christopher Boggs 2022 University of Alabama in Huntsville

A Reflection On Time, Samuel Christopher Boggs

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

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Poof!, Kathie Giorgio 2022 Bryant University

Poof!, Kathie Giorgio

Bryant Literary Review

When I was nine years old, a boy socked me on the arm at recess. He hit hard, enough to cause me to cry out, to bring tears to my eyes, though I wouldn’t let them escape.


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