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Bird And Bix, Emma Holley

English Student Projects

This short story was originally written for Advanced Creative Writing. I was inspired by a little bird that tapped on the window of a study room on 2 Breu. I wondered if he was looking in at me to say 'hello'. I knew I wanted to write a story about a bird who lived in the Breu parking lot, but the story didn't click until I found another character to befriend him. As I scratched out ideas, I heard the little voice of a bug delightfully shouting about the time he found an entire potato chip in the parking lot, …

Antología Vol. Iii Crónica, Cuento, Microrrelato, Poesía Y Relato, Jose Higuera Lopez, Dejanira Alvarez Cardenas

CUNY Mexican Studies Institute

Creada por iniciativa del Instituto de Estudios Mexicanos de CUNY,

la Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York es el espacio

por antonomasia de la promoción del español en la ciudad más

vibrante y cosmopolita de los Estados Unidos. Un español que se

mantiene vivo y cambiante por las muchas migraciones que componen

el entramado de la metrópoli y cuya vitalidad se ve reflejada en

la expresión escrita de la lengua; no solo en el terreno de la literatura

sino también en los de la academia y el periodismo.

La literatura producida en español en la ciudad …

People Eater, Lilas Verrill

Honors College

Monsters have persisted in literature throughout human culture serving the role as the living embodiment of our greatest fears. Based on that definition, we should have no reason to want to offer them our sympathy, our understanding, our love, yet we see them written with depth, complexity, even humanity, time and time again. The monster is more than just what scares us. They can be difficult to understand - foreign and strange, but if we take the time to look a little deeper, we may find part of ourselves staring back. This thesis explores the role the “monster” plays as …

The Wizard Of Roz, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

In this humorous short story by Marleen S. Barr an emissary from the planet Roz and a dragon who lives in an invisible tree inside Trump Tower save America from the Big Lie.

Sundae, Sarah Synan

Montserrat Annual Writing Prize

Childhood memories are relived during the consumption of an ice cream sundae.

Megxit Yields Trumpxit, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This short story is about how Meghan Markle becomes Queen of the United States, makes America Great Britain again--and replaces Trump.

Trump Asks A Feminist Extraterrestrial For A Favor, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a feminist science fiction satire about impeachment.

'When You're A Star, They Let You Do It' To Trump: Or, President Vagina T. Fireball's Executive Order, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a humorous short story about how a star holds Trump accountable for his misogyny.

Trump Ships Out--Without Seeing The Ship, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story written in response to efforts to hide the U.S.S. John McCain from Trump when he visited Japan.

Milk Duds, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a satirical short story about Trump's immigration policy.

Brett Kavanaugh Enters The Twilight Zone, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story about Brett Kavanaugh and THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

My Unfair Trumpie Closely Encounters 'Julie Andrews', Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a humorous short story about Trump.

President Harvey Weinstein Inaugurates The Pig Party, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a satirical short story about the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault situation.

Duck, Donald: A Trump Exorcism, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a satirical short story about Trump.

A Flying Saucer Belonging To A Joan Rivers Clone Lands On Temple Emanu-El Of New York's Roof (Sans Fiddler), Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a humorous short story which describes Joan Rivers' memorial service in terms of science fiction.

Desperate Times Call, Hector Duarte Jr

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

DESPERATE TIMES CALL is a collection of short stories and a novella about people whose lives intersect with violence. The young girl in Of Course She Would is forced to leave her home after finding her meth-addicted father dead of a heart attack. Tomas Mangual, the main character of She Said Two, sets off on a blind date to discover his counterpart has recently been the victim of a disturbing hate crime. The featured novella, Diablo Corrido, raises the question: How far would someone chase their ambition to see a life-long dream come true?

Using the intimate perspectives of …

Fourth Time’S A Charm, Ardennes Vickery

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

The sources I used to create my short story, Fourth Time’s A Charm, were essential for all aspects of its development. My story concerns the awkward first meeting of King Henry VIII and his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. As with all historical fiction stories, striving for period appropriate details and accurate representations of historical events was crucial. The resources that I was able to access through the UNLV University Libraries not only assisted me throughout my project by streamlining the research process, but proved indispensable for obtaining various primary sources that I may not have been unable to access …

Trump Dreams Of Jeannie, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story by Marleen S. Barr which describes how Trump encounters a genie, appoints Genghis Khan and Jack the Ripper to his Cabinet, and ends up corked in a bottle.

Pilgrim Through Space And Time, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story which describes what happened when Marleen S. Barr received the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction studies.

Oy, It's Super Yenta, Or Kvetch Me If You Can, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a humorous short story by Marleen S. Barr.

Swansong For Trump, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story about how Trump encounters fire breathing trumpeter swans.

In Restless Character: A Short Story And Writing Analysis, Emily Buechner

Senior Honors Theses

Creativity is the process of making something new. For those who desire to use their creativity, this process is discouraging because so many things have already been created. Originality becomes a battle to find a subject that remains untouched. However, Salman Rushdie, author of the1981 Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children, gives a theory for "how newness enters the world" as written in his 1992 essay "Imaginary Homelands." In this essay, he explores the negative and positive consequences resulting from the co-mingling of cultures, and he comes to the conclusion that the merging of two or more things unalike will …

Out Of Reach [Short Story], Kathleen Fowler

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

This Kind Of Thing Happens All The Time, Ashley Melchiore

Honors College Theses

The two short stories in this work are a reflection of the social wrongs in today's modern society that so often go overlooked.

Greyhound, 1984, Lisa K. Sandlin

Writer’s Workshop Faculty Publications

In "Greyhound, 1984," fiction writer Lisa Sandlin grabs and holds onto the reader with terse, rhythmic language, unique imagery, and a story that's both unsentimental and poignant.

Kirk T. Pistol Closely Encounters Enormous Flight Changes At The Last Minute--Sans Starship: A True James Gunn Appreciation Story, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story honoring Science Fiction Grand Master James Gunn.

Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend

The Short Story

This close-reading and discussion-oriented lesson, which takes between sixty and seventy minutes, uses Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” as a model of how dialogue advances plot and develops character in fiction. It is useful in literature classrooms for its emphasis on drawing inferences from text and in creative writing contexts for teaching effective dialogue writing. This lesson is suitable for grades 9-12.

“My Life With My Cell Phone”: Creating A Magical Realist Story, Dan Gleason

The Short Story

In this lesson students are introduced to the basic elements of magical realism, a genre that combines fantastical events with the mundane normalcy of life. Students examine Octavio Paz’s short story “My Life with the Wave” as an example of the genre. In the story, the narrator travels to the ocean and falls in love with a wave, whom he bottles and takes home with him; the two go on to both cherish each other and fight terribly. After discussing the story, students create, in groups, plot sketches for their own adaptations. Students might imagine relationships with cell phones, the …

Compulse, Candise W. Henson

Student Publications

A short short story that looks at the details of a strange marriage between a minister with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and his pregnant wife as they attempt to exorcise five girls at a backwoods church camp.

Storytelling In Comics: Who, When, And Where In “Here”, Michael W. Hancock

Comics and Graphic Novels

Richard McGuire’s groundbreaking short comic “Here” (1989) revolutionized storytelling possibilities in comics. It may be used within a short story unit to demonstrate familiar elements of fiction, including setting, plot, and character. Moreover, its inventive use of panels within panels to juxtapose past, present, and future can serve as a model for students’ visual rendering of multiple points in time within a single location.