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Strange New World, Marcus Bowlus

The Tuxedo Archives

The trip between Egypt and Jerusalem had taken hours already, the environmental shielding on his sand skimmer shone a faint orange, the barren wastes flying by below were scattered with husks of tanks and bones, scorch marks still clinging to a battle field no one wanted to remember. ~excerpt from the short story

The Last Lesson, Travis Lyons

The Tuxedo Archives

Transmission sounds like it’s got maybe a day left in it before I really got to take it in. Put it off long enough now; ain’t like I’ve had any spare cash to pay for it. So now the damn thing sounds like it’s had enough. Fucking lovely. Refrigerator blew out yesterday; dropped my last light bulb while trying to replace the one in the kitchen. ~excerpt from short story

Waiting, Alexis Brown

The Tuxedo Archives

“Thinking about someone special?” a young woman with big round brown hazel eyes asked me as I sat waiting for my time to come. I didn’t really have anything else to think about while I sat on the old moldy looking chair inside the 36B Airport Terminal. All I could replay in my mind was the thought of my wife smiling at me when I finally got home. That is, if I ever got home. ~excerpt from short story

Gunman Slays 4 At Texas Church, Then Kills Self, Alexis Brown

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They were laughing at me, I knew it. I brushed the sweat off of my brow and looked forward at the tall looming steeple that had haunted my dreams for the better part of a year. I could see their false angelic faces staring back at me, mocking me, waiting to see if I would complete my mission. ~excerpt from short story

Winter Wings, Jennifer Jensen

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Aideen’s eyes glowed with envy as she watched her older sister Fia dance the Burning Dance in the center of the circle. Fia’s hair was a drifting mass of golden tendrils, and her thin, graceful limbs writhed in perfect unison with the movements of the flames. ~excerpt from short story

Jack In The Box, Laura L. Reiche

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Behold the bloodless puppet rising
out a cheap quadrangular man-hole.
Fluorescent mandarin hair forming
a deceptive heart around alabaster skin,
framing his daisy petal eyes, his pink colossal nose,
and boomerang mouth.

~excerpt from poem

Doors, Laura L. Reiche

The Tuxedo Archives

Staunch sentries of decision

gloating and imposing

tempting and untrustworthy. ~excerpt from poem

Dragon 04, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

Dragon 03, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

Dragon 01, Jennifer Jensen

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

The White Light, Michael White

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.

Blue Man, Michael White

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No abstract provided.

Blue Embrace, Michael White

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No abstract provided.

Bag End, Claire Munzer

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No abstract provided.

Portfolio Vol. Iii N 3, Alison Ewart, Bob Maxwell, Virginia Martindale, Harriet Puffer, James Cox, Adela Beckham, Chester Varney, Dorothy Deane, Bob Smith, Dave Taylor, Margaret Gratza, Joseph Royce

Portfolio

Ewart, Alison. "Revenge." Prose. 3-4.

Maxwell, Bob. "Christ in Cleats." Prose. 5.

Martindale, Virginia. "Somnolence." Poetry. 6.

Frey, Erwin F. "Isolt." Picture. 6.

Puffer, Harriet. "Thirteenth Hour." Prose. 7-8.

Cox, James. "Selling Denison." Prose. 9-10.

Beckham, Adela. "Admonition." Poetry. 12.

Homer, Winslow. "Watching the Breakers." Picture. 12.

Varney, Chester. "The Snake Tree." Prose. 13-16.

Smith, Bob. "Review of New Recordings." Prose. 17.

Deane, Dorothy. "Review of New Books." Prose. 17.

Taylor, Dave. "An Artist Prepares." Prose. 19.

Gratza, Margaret. "Poems." Poetry. 20.

Reeder, Lydia. "Landscape." Picture. 20.

Royce, Joe. "Youth Hostels." Prose. 21-28.

Portfolio Vol. Iii N 2, David Timrud, Thomas Fox, Bob Maxwell, Virginia Martindale, Edward Deeds, Bernard Bailey, Dorothy Deane, Duke Smith, Dave Taylor

Portfolio

Timrud, David. "Brain Fever." Prose. 3-5.

X, Mister. "Shadows." Poetry. 6.

Fox, Thomas. "Purgatory of The Gods." Prose. 7-8.

Deeds, Ed. "The Messiah." Prose. 9-10.

Maxwell, Robert. "Haunted." Poetry. 10.

Maxwell, Bob. "Fortune Teller." Prose. 11-12.

Russell, Mark. "Illustration." Picture. 6.

Thomas, Roland. "'Tween Classes." Picture. 2.

Bailey, Bernard. "Boy and Instructor." Prose. 15.

Gratza, Margaret. "Three Poets." Poetry. 16.

Phillips, Alison. "Nasturtiums." Poetry. 16.

B.J.W. "Restlessness." Poetry. 16.

Russell, Mark. "Still Life." Picture. 16.

Martindale, Virginia. "The Boat In The Bayou." Prose. 17-18.

Deane, Dorothy. "Review of New Books." 19.

Deane, Dorothy. "Review of New Recordings." 19.

Koos, Betty. …

Portfolio Vol. Iii N 1, Carolyn Metcalf, Bob Maxwell, Alison Ewart, Alison Phillips, Adela Beckham, Don Bethune, Norman Nadel, Dorothy Deane, Bob Smith, Ruth Franke, Jim Black

Portfolio

Metcalf, Caroline. "Master of the World." Prose. 3-5.

Phillips, Alison. "Eulogies." Poetry. 6.

Chadeayne, Robert O. "Oak Street." Picture. 6.

Bethune, Don. "Denisonism." Prose. 7-8.

Maxwell, Bob. "My Star." Prose. 9-11.

V_______, S_______. "Poet Philosopher." Poetry. 12.

Ewart, Alison. "Pious Fraud." Prose. 13-15.

Beckham, Adela. "Reflections." Poetry. 16.

Velicka, Edward. "Portrait." Picture. 16.

Deane, Dorothy. "Review of New Books." Prose. 17.

Smith, Bob. "Review of New Recordings." Prose. 17.

Franke, Ruth. "Original Designs." Picture. 18.

Black, Jim. "Drama." Prose. 19-20.

Nadel, Norman S. "Initial Plunge." Prose. 23-24.

Rule Conflation In An Inferential-Realizational Theory Of Morphotactics, Gregory Stump

English Faculty Publications

In intuitive terms to be sharpened below, the micromorphology hypothesis is the hypothesis that an affix can itself be morphologically complex. This is a widespread assumption in descriptive accounts of the morphology of individual languages; yet, with only the rarest exceptions (e.g., the proposals of Bauer 1988; Bochner 1992 and Luís & Spencer 2005), morphological theory has tended to reject this hypothesis, most often tacitly. My objective here is therefore threefold. I begin by characterizing the micromorphology hypothesis in more precise terms, exemplifying it with the analysis of nominal inflection in Noon (Niger Congo/Atlantic; Senegal) presented by Soukka (2000) and …

Four Case Studies In Teaching Sermons At A Public University, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

In this paper, delivered at the March 2017 meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, I discuss my experience with teaching sermons at Marshall University, a public institution in Huntington, WV. I have done this in four classes over the past several years: “Good Essays” (a 200-level general-education course in the English Department); “God Talk” (another gen-ed course, team-taught with a faculty member in religious studies); “Sermon: Text and Performance” (a 400-level class in the Honors College); and “The Victorian Spoken Word” (a graduate seminar in English).

The audiences were very different, as were the texts we used (Newman, Spurgeon, …

Simulations Of The Androgynous Society: Shattering Gender Stereotypes In George Eliot’S Silas Marner, Jessica L. Wall

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

This paper examines George Eliot's novel Silas Marner and the compelling argument it asserts against Victorian gender stereotypes. Through the contradictory successes of characters that fail to conform to their expected niches, Eliot presents her revolutionary vision for an androgynous society. Most notably, Silas’s accidental motherhood redeems his purpose while saving Eppie's life, Priscilla's ability to protect the well-being of her family stems from her avoidance of a husband and assumption of a “masculine” managerial position, and Eppie’s idyllic life with Silas is preserved by her refusal to be treated as a possession by male authority figures. Through the experiences …