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Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

While the fantasy genre is one of the most widely read modes of writing, literary criticism and academic discussion of the genre takes place at a much lower level. This imbalance has developed in part because of a misconception that fantasy genre writings cannot accomplish significant, literary purposes. This thesis first offers an argument for why the fantasy genre should receive more attention in scholarly circles, then presents an excerpt of a fantasy novel. The argument draws from the limited amount of existing criticism to highlight the strengths of the fantasy genre, building a case that, in most respects, works …

What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

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I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

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The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

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blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

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It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Arabia, Jeffrey David Peckham

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Although he feels just fine, Neil still takes the morning off and keeps his appointment.

Contributors

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The Last Kiss, Uma Devi Doraiswamy

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The Last Kiss. a creative thesis. tries to explore if true love and moral values. through the main character Sweetie, can lead to an individual's satisfaction and happiness in the real world. Also it focuses on the friendship between two contrasting characters, Sweetie and Flirtie. The title takes its name from the real first and last kiss that Sweetie gives to her lover, Dennis, before her tragic end. When Sweetie is pursuing her Ph.D. program, she meets Dennis, a professor who teaches English, and who is twenty years older than she. She is gradually attracted to him and assumes that …

Poem No. 89, May 2003, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

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Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Explanation, Peter Johnson

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What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

The Present, Fred Muratori

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It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

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The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

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I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

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"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

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I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

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Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

Still Life, Brian Arundel

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We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

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It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

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What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

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An apple pie Americano -- attaboy! -- got the ax for being asleep

Verso

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Table Of Contents

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Editor's Note

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Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

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The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

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The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

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Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

Rope Dancers, Jessica Newton

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When you walk a tightrope you have to think of it as getting across the first third, then the second third, which makes it the last third a piece of cake

The Interpretation Of Dreams, William Greenway

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I was back in Georgia (where my Welsh

grandfather came to live),