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1995

Chen's wife -- The guard -- Afternoon of the faithless -- The good -- Falling -- Negative space --Homeland -- Matador -- Metatarsus -- Your daddy loves you -- Gums -- People on the edges of dreams.

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People On The Edges Of Dreams, Francesca B. French Nov 1995

People On The Edges Of Dreams, Francesca B. French

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This thesis is composed of a collection of twelve short stories, varying in length from 2 to 14 pages. Each story contains its own discrete theme, but fits as well within the overarching theme of the collection as a whole. This overarching theme is what gives the collection its cohesiveness. The main theme of the larger work can be found in the title of the collection, People on the Edges of Dreams. In many of the stories dreams, or dream-states, figure in the lives of the protagonists. In addition to the dream-state theme there is a less obvious theme, which …