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Shieldmaiden, Allison A. Taylor Oct 2013

Shieldmaiden, Allison A. Taylor

Student Publications

"Shieldmaiden" is a poem that examines J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series from a feminist perspective, focusing on the character of Éowyn and her influence on female readers of Tolkien's novels.


The View From The Front, Kathryn M. Gittings Oct 2013

The View From The Front, Kathryn M. Gittings

Student Publications

A creative piece detailing the personal and public history of a small Pennsylvania town, specifically dealing with its crimes and their effect on the collective memory and atmosphere of the area.


The Wonder Of Geese, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

The Wonder Of Geese, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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On Tubes, By Ted Stevens, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

On Tubes, By Ted Stevens, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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"Parable Of The Lost Finger" Podcast, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

"Parable Of The Lost Finger" Podcast, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

This episode we bring you the brand-spanking new bible stories of Bryan Furuness, in which Lucifer is a precocious little boy and Jesus is his accident-prone buddy. The suburban children of this unholy scripture effortlessly humiliate their mortal parents, who lock them out on summer days, and paint mustaches on their portraits.


The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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On Deadlifting, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

On Deadlifting, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

The first time I picked up four hundred pounds, I thought my eyeballs were going to explode.


Parable Of The Lost Finger, Bryan Furuness Sep 2013

Parable Of The Lost Finger, Bryan Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness Sep 2013

What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Ecclesiastes For Writers: A Furunessay In Six Answers, Bryan Furuness Sep 2013

Ecclesiastes For Writers: A Furunessay In Six Answers, Bryan Furuness

Bryan M. Furuness

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Dialogue In Fiction, Tracy A. Townsend Jun 2013

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.


What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness May 2013

What’S The Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines For Post-Mfa Despair, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella Apr 2013

Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella

Student Publications

A non-fiction piece that explores the causes of the author’s depression while in college. While she is able to pinpoint specific events that have led to her unhappiness, she realizes that accepting her life in spite of these obstacles will allow her to move forward.


Red Rose, Sara Lauren Purifoy Apr 2013

Red Rose, Sara Lauren Purifoy

Student Publications

Red Rose follows the narrator’s innermost thoughts and feelings of abruptly being immersed into a culture very different from her own. While hiking with her brother, a second year environmental Peace Corps volunteer, to visit the home and garden of a Nicaraguan native, she reflects on the changes she sees in her brother and her inability to communicate in a foreign country. She struggles to overcome her feelings of linguistic isolation while still being fascinated by the culture around her. The piece ends on a lovely image of universal understanding.


Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness Mar 2013

Play From The Heart: Five Notes On Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness Feb 2013

The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Being [T]Here, Dustin B. Smith Feb 2013

Being [T]Here, Dustin B. Smith

English Faculty Publications

When you awoke from the dream, in your early thirties, you knew, as you’ve never known anything else in all your seventy-plus years, that what you’d found was real. The dream began with you sitting in a church, head bowed in prayer. Your eyes opened slowly, and you noticed that you were wearing brilliantly colored, beaded moccasins. You stood abruptly, pushed open the mahogany gate that separated the pew from the center aisle of the church, and began to run. The dream then proposed a seemingly endless and entirely quotidian set of difficulties in The City, and led eventually to …


Et Cetera, Marshall University Jan 2013

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.