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Anxiously Awaiting: A Novella, Alexander Bartlow
Anxiously Awaiting: A Novella, Alexander Bartlow
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Throughout my childhood and secondary education growing up in rural Indiana, I found that, in a town of less than 2,000 people, mental illness and teenage suicide were all too common. Upon researching the sad state of mental healthcare in rural America, I felt obliged to bring light in my Honors thesis to the overlooked and under-treated thoughts that plague the minds of adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, and suicidal contemplation. In this fiction novella, I follow the life of Lincoln Phillips, a 14-year-old boy who lives with anxiety in an unchanging, inescapable town that stigmatizes mental illness. He experiences the …
Hypnotic White Silk Skylights, Anthony Borruso
Hypnotic White Silk Skylights, Anthony Borruso
Graduate Thesis Collection
A poetic examination of the self as well as cycles of trauma and recovery. This manuscript explores poetry's ability to transform one's experiences by re-engaging with them in the realm of the imagination.
Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk, Natalie Tombasco
Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk, Natalie Tombasco
Graduate Thesis Collection
A poetic look into the life of a girl which centers around food, alcoholism, mommy issues, sexuality, identity and mortality.
Dr. Mengelt, Marc Allan
Dr. Mengelt, Marc Allan
Graduate Thesis Collection
An obstetrician implants microchips in the babies he delivers so he can track their movements when they get older. The doctor is a white supremacist and determined to find evidence that supports his twisted vision of racial distinction. Eighteen years after his first implantations, two of the children he worked with commit a particularly brutal murder. The doctor turns them in anonymously and quickly becomes a kind of folk hero. But after a relentless New York Daily News reporter finds out how the murderers were identified, the doctor becomes a man on the run.
This Is How You Burn Away, Taylor Lewandowski
This Is How You Burn Away, Taylor Lewandowski
Graduate Thesis Collection
A short story collection dealing with down and out types in rural Montana and Indiana.