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Liars Like Him, Samantha Lynne Duncan Jan 2013

Liars Like Him, Samantha Lynne Duncan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This is a collection of short stories, which fall somewhere between the realist and absurdist genres of fiction. Most of them take place in or around Ohio. Birds and humans often appear side by side.


Excerpt From An Untitled Novel, Peter Kent Schumacher Jan 2013

Excerpt From An Untitled Novel, Peter Kent Schumacher

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

A bildungsroman about a seventeen-year-old boy living at a chaotic and mismanaged residential treatment center in western Colorado. Originally admitted for treatment of substance abuse, protagonist Steven Pike soon finds himself in a mire of violent and sexual conflicts with peers and treatment center staff.


Real Live Girls And Other Stories, Emily Karen Jones Jan 2012

Real Live Girls And Other Stories, Emily Karen Jones

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This is a collection of short stories.


Sudden Fortune, Lehuanani Marie Shelton Jan 2010

Sudden Fortune, Lehuanani Marie Shelton

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

A collection of short stories and experimental forms centered upon the life of Atti, a heroine whose experience as a multi-ethnic, lesbian-identified artist contributes to her (and other characters') theories about identity formation in a global community--one in which Western norms and Chamoru cultural practices are juxtaposed. Atti (whose name in Chamoru means "one who plays tricks") is an atypical heroine-figure, even in the most contemporary American literature, though her experience is representative of a significant community of Pacific Islanders currently living in America.