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The Bridge, Volume 5, 2008, Bridgewater State College

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Volume 5 Staff

Maria Alonso, Editor-in-Chief
Whitney White, Editor-in-Chief
Theressa Barnes
David Bevans, Jr.
Laura Bowen
Jason R. Gregory
Victoria Large
Mandy Lyons
Kurt M. Schleehauf
Tara M. Sullivan
Cheryl Tullis
Shaylin Walsh

Mary Dondero, Faculty Advisor
Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

The Mercury 2008

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 75, No. 1, Fall 2007, Brett Celinski, Katie Lecours, Dayna Stein, Louisa Schnaithmann, Tim Garay, Tori Wynne, Christopher Schaeffer, Pete Lipsi, Marykate Sullivan, Jen Mingolello, India Mcghee, Colin Ottinger, Megan Ormsby, Natalie Rokaski, Georgia Julius, Abigail Raymond, Christopher Curley, Aaron Garland, Ian O'Neill, Kristin O'Brassill, Marjorie Vujnovich

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Black Cat
• Divorce
• The Picture in the Basement
• An Ode to the '50s Housewife; or Go Go Sylvia Plath
• Paradise from a Clock
• The Fifth
• Moveable Feast
• Deathbed
• July 17th
• Words
• Autobiography
• The Raving
• The Dream Hater
• The Moon Rose Late
• Tree, the Big, Very Old One in the Middle of Campus
• Apple Bit
• Sub Atomic Romance
• God Came
• Extinction
• Ski Masks and Knee Caps
• Of Silhouettes and Dominoes

The Lantern Vol. 74, No. 2, Spring 2007, Jan Cohen, Chris Schaeffer, Jennifer Mingolello, Dayna Stein, Serena Mithboakar, Dan Sergeant, India Mcghee, Brett Celinski, Stephanie Bartusis, Trevor Strunk, Phil Repko, Thomas Richter, Tori Wynne, Ian O'Neill, Menaka Gopalan, Monica Crary, Michael Silber, Rachel Heller, Jon Gagas, Kevin Bendis, Christopher Curley

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• La Viuda
• The Curb After Light Drizzling
• Loose Cream
• The Problem of Ants
• Streetplay
• Avignon, Anno Domini 1348
• Autophagia
• Silverette-New Wave Fascist Date Routine
• Mint Shavings
• Dogtags
• Millenials
• Rain That Sleeps by Itself at Track Number 5
• Amorphous
• I Found a Flashlight
• Sippikkul Muthu: Pearl Within Shell
• Of Lies
• The Complications of a Fish-Only Diet
• Ashes
• Unto the Fourth Generation
• Marooned on Piano Island
• Sweet

The Bridge, Volume 4, 2007, Bridgewater State College

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Volume 4 Staff

Laura Viola Maccarone, Editor-in-Chief
Shaylin Walsh, Editor-in-Chief
Cheryl Tullis, Webmaster
Maria Alonso
Michael Carter
Emily Goodwin
Ben Hogan
Michele Lyons
Shawna Macaulay
Corey Ritch
Charlie Robinson
Eric Smith
Emily Anne White
Derrick Zellmann

Mary Dondero, Faculty Advisor
Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

The Mercury 2007

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 74, No. 1, Fall 2006, Patrick Roesle, Dayna Stein, Thomas Richter, Ivy Mcdaniels, Liora Kuttler, Sara Campbell, Jason Comcowich, Peter Lipsi, Christopher Schaeffer, Christopher Curley, Trevor Strunk, India Mcghee, Ashley Higgins, Brett Celinski, Phil Repko, Brittany Fernandez, Tori Wynne, Tracey Ferdinand, Caroline Meiers, Kerri Landis, Marjorie Vujnovich, Dan Sergeant, Joe Wasserkrug, Sam Greenfield, Trick Barrett, Sean Sasscer, Erin Rafferty, Nick Shattuck, Stephanie Bartusis, Ian O'Neill

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Seven Haikus About Insomnia
• Lunch Hour
• Divorced Parents and Flower Guts
• 24
• Lily
• Growth
• Narcissistically Admiring You
• Mysterious Avocado
• Aloha Roast
• Summer
• Lines
• Internalizing
• San Francisco
• Numb Candle
• Moments No. 1
• Tanka
• Euphemism
• We be Malllllll
• Dragon Magic
• Time for the Magic Show
• Green
• Job
• The Shire
• Venom
• The Seasons of Love
• The Position
• Fragments of an Artist
• Peace
• Vagabond Nights
• Rerum Concordia Discors

The Lantern Vol. 73, No. 2, Spring 2006, Christopher Curley, Patrick Roesle, Klaus Yoder, Ashley Higgins, Phil Repko, Rachel Daniel, Rori Smith, Andrew Brienza, Brett Celinski, Nathan Dawley, Katy Diana, Georgia Julius, Joshua Solomon, Trevor Strunk, Tori Wynne, Jennifer Mingolello, Julie Gentile, Brad Smith, Rachel Bower, Natalie Rokaski, Katharine Jones, Ian O'Neill, Harrison Ziskind, Christopher Wierzbowski, Richard Veale, Maureen Mccarthy

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Of the Man
• Beauty in America
• Kindling
• Genevieve
• Bits of Copper
• A Love Song to Hip Hop
• From James' Journal
• I Want a Woman
• Peregrine Rain
• Resurge
• Frustrations
• (At Least) You Gave Me Something to Write About
• The Fun of Giving Interactive History Lectures as a Summer Job
• Exigence
• White Water
• My Summer, with Salt
• The City With Two Faces
• I Dig Your Cello
• Life-Filled Ghost Town
• Laura, On Happiness
• Integration/Assimilation
• Sunny Side Estates
• Every Night I …

The Mercury 2006

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

The Bridge, Volume 3, 2006, Bridgewater State College

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Volume 3 Staff

Cheryl Tullis, Editor-in-Chief
Victoria Large, Editor-in-Chief
David Bevans
Christelle L. Del Prete
Derek T. Hambly
Joseph Kolczewski, Jr.
Angelique Paparella
Ryan Perry
Patricia Portanova
Christopher Rego
Georgia Savory
Shaylin Walsh

Mary Dondero, Faculty Advisor
Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

Role Playing Games As Interactive Fiction, John Miller

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This chapter compares the experience of gaming and the experience of reading, and explores what that comparison might tell us about each. More specifically, it applies methods of literary analysis to the study of two narrative activities situated near the border of reading and gaming: Electronic hyperfictions and role-playing games. Miller first reviews literary theories of reader response and interactivity and notes how these have informed recent critical discussions of literary hyperfiction. He then critiques these discussions and the claims made for hyperfiction's liberating or empowering effect on readers: Contrary to the claims of some critics, such narratives generally fail …

The Lantern Vol. 73, No. 1, Fall 2005, Daniel Sergeant, Nathan Dawley, Katy Diana, Klaus Yoder, Brad Schutts, Trevor Strunk, Joshua Solomon, Patrick Roesle, Thomas Richter, Jennifer Mingolello, Nathan Dawley, Tori Wynne, Tracey Ferdinand, Natalie Rokaski, Katherine Jones, Elsa Budzowski, Brett Celinski, Ashley Higgins

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Newspaper Clippings Found on the Wall of Giuseppe Luchenzo's Home When it was Raided by Police
• All the Time in the World
• The Man Who Would Win
• Souffle Suit
• A Day in the Mind
• Context
• Felicity / Awareness
• Frivolous
• Thank You Note to J.S.B.
• September 17, 2005
• Eight Ways of Looking at a Highway
• Dusty Glass Spreads Air Like Light
• Clockwork
• Rubber Band
• Outside Eye or I Am?
• A Mundane Mysticism
• Half Carat
• Things I Learned on My Trip to the Mutter …

The Lantern Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring 2005, Patrick Roesle, Julie Gentile, Joshua Solomon, Ashley Higgins, Megan Bossler, Rachel Daniel, Thomas Richter, Victoria Wynne, Susannah Fisher, Jennifer Mingolello, Sarah Kauffman, Trevor Strunk, Jessica Schoff, Abi Munro, Klaus Yoder, Sean Neil, Alison Shaffer, Shane Borer, Whitney Roper, Daniel Bruno, Chris Curley, Shannon Burke

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Transmigration
• Faces of the Moon
• Euphony of the Euphonium
• He Met Me in the Arcs & Ebbs of Frailty
• An Adoration of Ordination
• Ebony: The Essence Thereof
• Curbside Statue Has No Legs Left
• Triggerfinger Romance
• Lost
• Running Through Connecticut
• Eve
• The Day Lates and the Dollar Shorts
• Somnambulist
• That's That
• The Glenn Machine
• Evenfall in Bad Homburg
• Absence of Field
• Dating Myself
• Traveling Without a Map
• The Non-Euclidean Way to Get Some Bagels
• La Belle Epoque
• Satin Boxes

The Bridge, Volume 2, 2005, Bridgewater State College

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Volume 2 Staff

Stacy Cohen
David George
Beth Horka
David Mitchell
Elizabeth Redmond
Nicole Roy
Kimberly Silva
Cheryllynn Silvia
Janine Woodward

Mary Dondero, Faculty Advisor
Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

The Lantern Vol. 72, No. 1, Fall 2004, Nathan Dawley, Victoria Wynne, Thomas Richter, Susannah Fisher, Katy Diana, Sarah Kauffman, Trevor Strunk, Chris Curley, Meghan Bickel, Jan Cohen, Ashley Higgins, David Chamberlin, Jill Williams, Alison Shaffer, Abi Munro, Klaus Yoder, Caroline Meiers, Jennifer Mingolello, Daniel Bruno, Peter Bregman

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Jazz
• Bifocal Brainfreeze
• A Mug of Tea
• Autumn Blend
• Montana Skies
• Madeleine Parenthesis
• Ghosts Come Out at Night
• Time
• 144 Cromwell Road
• Market East
• Secret
• Stream
• What Might Have Been or What Never Was
• Buried Mirth
• Conversations With a Writer
• Churning Through
• Chum-Salmon Intentions
• Cages
• Lola Sang of Green Glass Landscapes
• Peg's Antiques
• Life at 120 Decibels

Calliope : War, Love, & Wisdom (2004), Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 2, Spring 2004, Jay Richards, Tori Wynne, Jonathan Kiernan, Sarah Kauffman, Sarah Napolitan, Nathan Dawley, Larry Barr, Katy Diana, Alison Shaffer, Susannah Fisher, Trevor Strunk, Melanie Scriptunas, Dennis Kearney, John Ramsey, Dan Bruno, Klaus Yoder, Jessica Schoff, Jen Brink, Kate Chapman, Haley Turney

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Football Captain
• Grass Blades
• Identity Theft
• Her Shoulders
• Doing 100
• Watching the
• Fifteen Lines for Five
• Plague
• On the Occasion of Kissing You Less Than I Used To
• Decomposey
• Broomhandles
• Just a Minute
• War of the Words
• Seguidille
• At the End of One's Rope
• The Ride and Joe
• I Want Soft Curls
• Broken
• Stories of a Hypochondriac
• The TV is in Jail & My Mom is the Warden

The Bridge, Volume 1, 2004, Bridgewater State College

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Volume 1 Staff

Lauren Carter, Editor-in-Chief
Jennifer Stodder
Kaitlin MacLean
David Mitchell
John Butler
Christina Warsheski
Courtney Smith

Jerald Walker, Faculty Advisor
Linda Hall, Alumni Consultant
Rosann Kozlowski, Alumni Consultant

Fauxtopia, Raymond William Kampf

Theses and Dissertations

To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... with the hope that it will be a source of edutainment for all the world.Ray KampfFauxtopia DedicationApril 1st, 2004

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 1, Fall 2003, Katy Diana, Bart Brooks, Sarah Napolitan, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Kauffman, Dan Bruno, Trevor Strunk, Jan Cohen, Jen Brink, Jonathan Gagas, Shane Borer, Kate Chapman, Dennis Kearney, Crystal Mccarney, Ashley Mcintosh, Klaus Yoder, Kate Juliano, John Ramsey, Melanie Scriptunas, Alison Shaffer

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Lights of Venice
• Portrait
• Switzerland
• Drunken
• Revel Writing
• Nectarines
• Shifting Gears
• Stogie
• Reflect
• In the Key of Fuchsia Minor
• Jarring
• Sissy
• Mongols vs. Amish: X-Treme Culture Clash
• Holding On
• The Bethany
• Creekside
• The Real Thing
• On Being Alone and Other Pleasures
• Forced Entry
• The Case of Beauty: Aesthetics of Distance

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Spring 2003), Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 70, No. 2, Spring 2003, Christopher Tereshko, Sarah Napolitan, John Ramsey, Alison Shaffer, Sarah Kauffman, Susannah Fisher, Kate Chapman, Katy Diana, Andrew E. Petersen, Laura Phillips, Abigail Munro, Deidre Delpino, Stephen Corrado, Melanie Scriptunas

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• To the Automobile Owners of the Fine State of New Jersey
• Topless
• Lame Foot
• Rosary Apologia
• Alias
• So Luscious
• Dec 12 02
• Climbing
• On Susannah in the Morning
• Statistics
• A Thursday in February
• Breaking Blue
• Leaves on my Tongue
• The Bread They Mistook for a Kiss
• The Process
• Home is Where the Hershey's is
• Rock the Boat
• The Splitting

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Fall 2002), Calliope

Calliope

Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, Visual Arts

The Lantern Vol. 70, No. 1, Fall 2002, Alison Shaffer, Katy Diana, Christopher Tereshko, Susannah Fisher, Drew Petersen, Klaus Yoder, John Ramsey, Sarah Kauffman, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Keith Truman, Jen Brink, Kate Chapman, Laura Phillips, Dennis Kearney, Cara Nageli, Sarah Napolitan

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• (For Z)
• Little Sister
• Eulogy to Her Son, Dead at 22
• Tuesday
• 7 Couplets for Drawing Genevieve
• Diner Reflection
• We Swam. We Made Sand Castles.
• His Lips Were Figure Fitting
• Public Transportation
• Pop Culture
• Running the Ridge
• Like a Sunflower
• Snooze
• Match
• Behavioral Correctional Facility of Santa Fe...
• The Cellar

The Lantern Vol. 69, No. 2, Spring 2002, Erin Dickerson, Cory Spangler, Kevin Hankins, Sarah Kauffman, Christopher Tereshko, Sarah Napolitan, Alison Shaffer, Melanie Scriptunas, John Ramsey, Christine Spera, Monica Stahl, Patricia Quinn, Syreeta Dixon, Raquel Pidal, Genevieve Romeo, Dennis Kearney, Phil Malachowski, Rosabelle Diaz, Michael Pomante, Katie Lambert, Daniel Bruno

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• What was Said in the Court of Riong
• Bailan Pies (Dancing Feet)
• Canard
• Vernacular City
• Saturday Night Motorcycles
• The Muse
• I Stuffed my Face in the Herbs
• Jacob's Nightingale
• At Tracey's
• Ona Time, a Rhym-mer
• For Yo Yo Ma's Encore
• Two Minutes from Earl's Court Tube Station
• For Two
• Bald
• This Year's Love
• The Dimmer Switch
• Tickertape
• Imaginary Highway
• First Kiss and Related Terrors
• Hairball
• His Hobbies
• Spaghetti Dinner

The Lantern Vol. 69, No. 1, Fall 2001, Drew Petersen, Amy Scarantino, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Napolitan, Maura Strauman, Whitney Daniels, Leah Miller, Melanie Scriptunas, Jennifer Walton, Alison Shaffer, Ali Bierly, Jennifer Brink, Katie Lambert, Harry Michel, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Amanda Ripley, Chris Tereshko, Laura Phillips, Flynn Corson, Genevieve Romeo, Phil Malachowski, Kathryn Chapman, John Ramsey, Michael Pomante, Olatokunbo Laniya, Raquel Pidal, Shaina Schmeltzle

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Frets
• Burn
• The Amish-Man
• City Children
• Coasting West
• Futile
• Oxymoron
• Fleeting Reflection
• Pink Geraniums
• Moving
• Running: Arcola
• Expectations
• One Time Deal
• We Slept
• Faraway Field
• My Own Giselle
• My Father's Will
• Meet Me in Montana
• Pride is a Lawn Mower
• Gloss
• 2% Low Fat
• Bits of Tuesday
• This is not a Pipe
• What Ifs
• Reconnection
• A Bell Called Emily
• The Elevator

The Lantern Vol. 68, No. 2, Spring 2001, Kirsten Mascioli, Benjamin Schuler, Alyson Jones, Sarah Napolitan, Corey Taylor, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, John Ramsey, Lori Kruk, Syreeta Dixon, Melanie Scriptunas, Thomas Lipschultz, Jeffrey Church, Daniel Gallagher, Mike Keeper, Monica Stahl, Ani Broderick, Christine Spera, Jason Fischer, Genevieve Romeo, Rosabelle Diaz, Raquel B. Pidal, Kelly Campbell

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Eden
• Ginsberg Mourning
• On the Cusp of Winter
• (Woman: as Needing to be Silver and Sharp)
• Descended
• Book Unbinding
• Scrawlings on the Stall
• My Frankenstein
• Jazzy Avantguardia
• Paper Crane
• A Child's Valentine
• Ten Years' Gone
• Out the Window
• Tar's Melting
• Passing Time
• Ave Maria
• Heart of the Matter
• Damn Kids
• The Candle Incident
• Nostalgia
• Cuban Couch
• Dinner Date

The Lantern Vol. 68, No. 1, Fall 2000, Olatokunbo Laniya, Monica Stahl, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Susan Goll, Lori Kruk, Jeff Church, Michael Keeper, Matthew James Terenna, Chris Tereshko, Ryan Mcleod, Thomas Lipschultz, Laura Phillips, Chris Calderelli, John Ramsey, Genevieve Romeo, Aly Jones, Daniel Gallagher, Philip M. Malachowski, Corey Taylor, Tina Benson, Shawn Witt, Jason Fischer, Christine Spera

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• In Attempting to Imitate J. Agard (III)
• Headstones
• Calligraphy Grace
• Fifty Years
• Morning
• The Millstone
• Quick Stop-Off
• Jesus Wept (SuperBuick Bodybag)
• Just a God
• Amy
• Silver Doubloons
• Ogbanje
• Left Behind
• Asymmetrical Smile
• Sundays
• Pie in the Sky
• No Surprises
• Bill Gooden's Son
• Downcast Eyes Meet Tablecloth
• Wetlands
• Desperate Actions
• Receiving End
• A Pack of Matches
• Coffee

Calliope : Fall 1999/Spring 2000, Calliope

Calliope

Calliope - The Greek Muse of Epic Poetry

The Lantern Vol. 67, No. 2, Spring 2000, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Caleb Prescott, Christine Spera, Oana Nechita, Daniel Gallagher, Jeffrey Church, James Clark Robinson, Lilly Afshari, Rosabelle Diaz, Andrew Gerchak, Ben Jackendoff, Susan Patton, Harry Michel, Genevieve Romeo, Corey Taylor, Ashley Claus, Michael Edwards, Amber Frame, Tom Lipschultz, Aly Jones, Philip Malachowski, Anthony Ciarlello, Lori Kruk, Tom Howard, Mike Keeper

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Dearest Yarn-Spinner
• My Poem, This Tongue In Your Eye
• 15th & Rodman
• Vision
• Linguistics
• Casting Cartesian Shadows
• On the Defensive
• Sea Sick but Still Docked
• Urban Dreams
• Wolf of the Steppes
• Josephine
• Happy Birthday to Me
• I Have Never Been to Africa
• Pa-pou
• Onion[s]
• Intimacy
• Three Trick Pony
• Blazer
• In My Tea
• Emmaless
• Dreamcatcher
• Repetition
• With the Turn of the Reel
• Fault Lines
• The Shrink Is In
• The dancE
• Exam
• Another Post-Apocalyptic …