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Flightless, Danielle Gorin
Flightless, Danielle Gorin
Theses
The stories in this collection occupy a range of genres: realist literary fiction, slice of life, horror, magical realism/fabulism. While most of the pieces are short fiction, there is one short short, and one flash piece. What unites these disparate styles and forms is a concern with the everyday, with family dramas. Flightless is interested in exploring the dynamics of different familial relationships, particularly that of mothers and their children. These relationships, even good ones, can be fraught with expectations, guilt, and feelings of obligation unique to the expected roles of mothers and children, and my stories seek to investigate …
Groundless, Niara Jackson
Groundless, Niara Jackson
Theses
Groundless is a collection of realist short stories that follow original characters as they move into a new understanding of themselves. They may think they are grounded in who they are, but each character learns new things that often contradict what they think they know about themselves. As with anyone, it is important that these characters re-examine who they think they are and look outward – what has made them that way? Is their perception accurate? Are they being fair to themselves and those around them? New understandings of what they believe about themselves and about their world are always …
Leper/Cat, Bryan Halvarsson
Leper/Cat, Bryan Halvarsson
Theses
This novella is about an artist stricken with leprosy who has to spend the rest of his living days on a mountainside with a particularly large cat.
What The Water Brought Me: A Composite Of Two Short Stories And A Novel Portion, Shannon Strawhun
What The Water Brought Me: A Composite Of Two Short Stories And A Novel Portion, Shannon Strawhun
Theses
This thesis is a collection of two short stories and three chapters from my novel, Shore Walkers. The short stories, “Lights Against Your Back” and “Thunder and Dust” are a part of a larger collection I have been working on. Each story is based on a different being or place from Gulliver’s Travels. Though the stories can be read separately, there are characters and settings which eventually link all the works in the collection. The stories follow characters in different places and time in the United States. “Thunder and Dust” centers around the dismantling of the Hearst Castle in the …