As The Waters Rose,
2025
Bryant University
Memoria Teneo,
2025
Bryant University
Fingers Of Light,
2025
Bryant University
At Heaven's Gate,
2025
Bryant University
The Day I Buried Myself,
2025
Bryant University
The Day I Buried Myself, Lauren Robertson
Bryant Literary Review
No abstract provided.
Jumpsuit Princess,
2025
Bryant University
Alembic Cover 2025,
2025
Providence College
Volume 103, Number 1 - Spring 2025,
2025
Providence College
Volume 103, Number 1 - Spring 2025, Providence College
The Alembic
Cover Photo: Moonlit Providence by Lily Spiegel
Heaven’S Star,
2025
Providence College
Meet The Editors,
2025
Providence College
The Last Miller,
2025
Providence College
Not Even Past,
2025
Providence College
The Absolution On The Mountain Pass,
2025
Providence College
Contributors' Notes,
2025
Providence College
Table Of Contents,
2025
Providence College
Editor's Note,
2025
Providence College
Birds Don't Fly Here,
2025
University of Mississippi
Birds Don't Fly Here, Sarah Mcraney
Honors Theses
Birds Don’t Fly Here is a novella that follows Elora Maevry. She spent her life feeling like an outsider in her own home. She felt like her Nanny was her only true family, but when her Nanny passes away, Elora is forced to confront her family issues while struggling with grief. Elora is forced to make a decision. She can keep flying away or finally face the truth that has caged her. This story includes themes like grief, mental health issues, abandonment, love, and the complications of relationships.
Fantasy And Faith: Lewis And Tolkien On Magic In Fantastical Literature,
2025
Liberty University
Fantasy And Faith: Lewis And Tolkien On Magic In Fantastical Literature, Zion Lang
Senior Honors Theses
Despite biblical warnings against the occult, Christian authors C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien incorporated many kinds of magic into their works of fantasy. These authors had an orthodox view of the occult, but they also believed that fantasy magic differs from the esoteric: its purpose is imaginative, rather than power-seeking, and it is usually part of the imagined laws of the fantasy world. Lewis focused on the mythic side of fantasy and included more ambiguous magic. Tolkien focused on fantasy as eucatastrophic fairy tale, and his works include somewhat divine supernatural forces. Nonetheless, both authors saw fantasy …
The Things We Lose And Other Haunted Stories,
2025
Georgia College & State University
The Things We Lose And Other Haunted Stories, Michaela Arnice Reed
Fiction MFA Theses
Inspired by Southern Gothic fiction and speculative short fiction, the stories in "The Things We Lose and Other Haunted Stories" explore the realms of otherness, loss, and family relationships. Though not always supernatural, each story contains a ghostly element which haunts the characters, pushing them out of their comfort zones so they may confront and grow from the fears and phenomena which threaten to break them.
I Am Guillotine,
2025
Georgia College
I Am Guillotine, Nathanael Joseph Williams
Fiction MFA Theses
63 years after the Mad War, an exchange of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, a twelve-year old girl wakes up on a train. She has no memory of where she comes from or who she was before the train, but when it stops, there is no doubt that she is now a slave. Brought to the town of Bludgeonburg in chains, she is sold off, along with a boy named Mohawk, to a man named Aabrax as a pit slave. The odd are firmly against Aabrax, and Gilly is not expected to survive, but by a stroke of luck, she …
