These Wants,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Dinner At Eight,
2017
Missouri State University
Dinner At Eight, Anastasia M. Berkovich
Graduate Theses/Dissertations
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 …
Forever Story Time,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Maintaining Orbit,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
I'M Her Brother,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Near Shiprock,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Noise,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Volcano,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Breath,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Growing Young,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Incident,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Radio Night,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Three Steps,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Diagnosis,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Dement…De…,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Sinister,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Evangeline,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
No One Can Lift Away,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Mendicant's Cemetery,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Brave Ones,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
