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The Chickadee's Song, Ashley Bernett 2018 John Carroll University

The Chickadee's Song, Ashley Bernett

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


The Colors Of An Abuser, Mara Bahmer 2018 John Carroll University

The Colors Of An Abuser, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Sleeping With The Lights On, Mara Bahmer 2018 John Carroll University

Sleeping With The Lights On, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Reaching, Mara Bahmer 2018 John Carroll University

Reaching, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Poisons And Remedies, Mara Bahmer 2018 John Carroll University

Poisons And Remedies, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.


Author Bios, 2018 John Carroll University

Author Bios

The John Carroll Review

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Table Of Contents, 2018 John Carroll University

Table Of Contents

The John Carroll Review

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Ephemera: Copy Of Friends Of Cross Creek Pamphlet., 2018 University of North Florida

Ephemera: Copy Of Friends Of Cross Creek Pamphlet.

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Found in a book titled "Color Purple." Circa 1965-1985. Box 4, Folder 11


Rapunzel Has Insomnia: Stories, Mary Buchanan Sellers 2018 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Rapunzel Has Insomnia: Stories, Mary Buchanan Sellers

LSU Master's Theses

Rapunzel Has Insomnia is part story collection, part fairy tale vignette, and part personal memoir, dealing with themes of mental illness and inheritance, the complexity of mother daughter relationships, and childhood trauma. Similar to the structure of a novelin-- stories, Rap unzel ’s connective tissue is made up of memoir, specifically dealing with the aftereffects of my mother’s Bipolar One disorder and subsequent psychiatric commitments throughout my childhood and young adult years. The other more peripheral narratives are magicalrealist in nature, which are made up of fabulist fiction stories. Both of these narratives are then tied to an over arching …


Mimola Or The Story Of A Casket, Antoine Innocent, Susan Kalter 2018 Illinois State University

Mimola Or The Story Of A Casket, Antoine Innocent, Susan Kalter

Undiscovered Americas

Appearing for the first time in English, Antoine Innocent’s 1906 novel Mimola or the Story of a Casket weaves the story of Mimola, daughter of Madame Georges, who suffers from an incurable nervous disease, with an investigation of the traditions of Haitian Vodou. Desperate to end her daughter’s affliction, Madame Georges goes on a pilgrimage across Haiti to Ville-Bonheur to help her ailing daughter. Along the way, she meets a woman whose son, Léon, suffers from a similar disorder. Will their mothers’ devotion be enough to ensure the children’s recovery? Will the suffering Mimola and Léon embrace Vodou beliefs and …


Run Me Dusk, Zane Truman DeZeeuw 2018 Western Kentucky University

Run Me Dusk, Zane Truman Dezeeuw

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This is a full-length novel with a critical afterward. Run Me Dusk is a falling-out of love narrative about twenty-seven-year-old Milo who, after being broken up with by his boyfriend Red, flees from Illinois back to his hometown in southwestern Colorado to meditate on his place and purpose in life. The themes covered in this book are gay relationships, family relationships, mortality, and the natural world.


The Earth, The Moon, The Stars: Stories, Cameron Jay Moreno 2018 Western Kentucky University

The Earth, The Moon, The Stars: Stories, Cameron Jay Moreno

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This is a book-length, hybrid collection of short stories and poetry with a critical introduction. The narrative of these stories and poems are told through the perspective of Xavi Muñoz and various characters related to him. In theme, this collection explores machismo and Xavi’s attempt at overcoming it by discovering the intersectionality between masculinity, sexuality, gender, and gender roles. In addition, the introduction theorizes about masculinity by relating it to water.


The Meadow And The Archive, Kris Bronstad 2018 University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Meadow And The Archive, Kris Bronstad

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

“The Meadow and the Archive” is a short fictional story about a government archives branch operating in a totalitarian empire in which components of the natural world have been eradicated. Archivists observe and assist a woman whom manages to liberate an important element from a particular collection. It is hoped that this element will contain the beginnings of a wilderness that the empire has systematically worked to destroy. The transaction also offers hope for other subversive modes of archival use.


Bones I Found In The Garden, Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan 2018 University of Southern Maine

Bones I Found In The Garden, Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

This collection is a volume of small, intimate moments portrayed in both poetry and prose. Rather than grand, operatic plots telling convoluted stories, this work speaks of the magic in simple things, looking in at personal (and often difficult) moments—the process of finding the beauty in ugly things, finding the crumbs of human emotion that slip through the cracks—lending them the attention they are due but often fail to receive. This collection digs up potsherds of childhood trauma, bones of old romances, and ghosts of things that will never be, all presented to the reader through the lens of fantasy. …


Editor’S Note, Trent Hergenrader 2018 Rochester Institute of Technology

Editor’S Note, Trent Hergenrader

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

One of the primary goals of the field of creative writing studies is to examine creative writing lore. Lore is anecdotal knowledge, often passed down through generations as informal advice and traditional knowledge that is often framed as appealing to our common sense. Lore is not necessarily wrong or bad; indeed, it usually has more than a grain of truth to it, which is why it survives and continues to be shared, like a folk remedy for the common cold.


Nature's Paths, Chloe Switzer 2018 Linfield College

Nature's Paths, Chloe Switzer

Senior Theses

This creative writing thesis contains a lyric essay, short story, and poetry by Chloe Switzer.

  • Love of Place
  • Lost in Venice
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The Place Where All Ends Meet, Benjamin Long 2018 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

The Place Where All Ends Meet, Benjamin Long

Student Theses and Dissertations

A novella.


You Are Here, Emma L. Carlton 2018 University of New Orleans

You Are Here, Emma L. Carlton

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

N/A


North Of Almost Everything, Joseph Kelly 2018 University of New Orleans

North Of Almost Everything, Joseph Kelly

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


I Am Florida, Marian M. Kaufman 2018 University of New Orleans

I Am Florida, Marian M. Kaufman

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


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