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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.
The Sins Of The Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In The Sins of the Mothers, the main character, Bridgette, suffers a mental breakdown after the death of her three-month-old baby, Celeste, from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). She develops severe obsessive-compulsive disorder with the delusion that the child is trapped in Limbo because she was never baptized. The delusion haunts Bridgette, and she suffers brief dissociative episodes with visual hallucinations. Bridgette hears of a church in Provence where, according to a seventeenth century legend, children who died without baptism returned briefly to life under the intersession of Saint Pantaleon were baptized and gained heaven. She decides to exhume Celeste’s …
Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon
Achieving Relationships, Frederick C. Melancon
Master's Theses
These stories attempt to follow John Gardner’s instruction to create a dream that will engage the reader. Mirroring the goal that an author has to create a relationship with his audience, each story in turn focuses on emotional details that convey the characters’ feelings of isolation or, alternatively, inclusion in their communities. In the first story, a young man tries to recreate his father’s king cake. In the next, a middle school girl fixates on her relationship with her sister. Trying to recapture the memory of a lost daughter, a man searches for the perfect nectar snowball. A mom, then, …
An Unnamed God., Luke Cash Mansfield
An Unnamed God., Luke Cash Mansfield
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This creative thesis is the story of a man returning home at the behest of a friend who is undergoing great difficulties in her life. While Docent Americana ostensibly travels home to help his friend, he is also trying to cope with challenges in his own life. He suffers from bipolar disorder and although he is receiving treatment for it the stresses of the experience trigger a manic episode that threatens his personal stability and his relationships with those around him. An Unnamed God is set in western Kentucky, affording a glimpse at the slow decay of rural communities as …
Easy Hearts: A Novel, Andrew J. Olsen
Easy Hearts: A Novel, Andrew J. Olsen
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Easy Hearts is a novel set in contemporary Texas. Justin Borchard, just paroled after three and-a-half years in prison, returns to his hometown in East Texas where his wife, Melinda, has been tending bar at the Shortleaf Inn. After Melinda confesses to a brief affair with a local oil executive named Waylon Goodwin, an affair she has ended, and facing limited prospects in their hometown, Melinda and Justin make the hard choice to accept a proposition from Waylon: they will leave home for Hearts County, a desolate swatch of hardpan in the Permian Basin of West Texas, where Waylon has …
Calle Panadero, Giselda Aguiar
Calle Panadero, Giselda Aguiar
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection of nine short stories follows Adelia Villalobos and Isidoro Belmonte, two Cuban Americans solving crimes in present-day South Florida. The former best friends have grown apart during college, but when Adelia is drawn into a murder case, the outcome leads Isidoro to return home and the pair to found the unlicensed detective agency, Calle Panadero (Spanish for Baker Street). Their cases explore the underside of many facets of the community, including bigamy, fraud, and criminal organizations. Along the way, they deal with love, death, and family obligations, and arrive at a new understanding of how their destinies are …
Kowalski Lives, Jaymie-Rae Martin
Him., Brenden M. Kleiboeker
Cooking In Stride, Bret Lundstrom
Creating A Monster, Taylor Johnson
Soulmates, Taylor Johnson
Funerals Are For The Living, Taylor Martin
A Trudge In The Snow, Bret Lundstrom
The Ones Who Disappeared, Kristine Wagner
Welcome To The Show, Jaymie-Rae Martin
The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College
The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
In its thirty-fourth consecutive semester of programming, the New Writing Series will host six readings featuring four poets (John Keene, Prageeta Sharma, Divya Victor, and John Yau) and two fiction writers (Emily Fridlund and Joanna Walsh).
These writers are all highly active across the full spectrum of literary activity. They are editors, publishers, and anthologists; translators and tale-tellers; art-makers and trail-blazing scholars.
The New Writing Series brings innovative and adventurous contemporary writing to the University of Maine's flagship campus in Orono on selected Thursdays at 4:30pm.
2015 Fall Chapbook, Otterbein English Department
2015 Fall Micro Chapbook, Otterbein English Department
2015 Fall Micro Chapbook, Otterbein English Department
Quiz and Quill
No abstract provided.
The Abandoned, Elizabeth Ivey
The Abandoned, Elizabeth Ivey
Faculty and Research Publications
I didn’t always know what I was, but I knew I was different.
Father And Mother Songs, Heather Fowler
Father And Mother Songs, Heather Fowler
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
A collection of stories submitted by Heather Fowler for receipt of an MFA degree in Summer 2015.
Blackletter: Fiction And A Wall Of Precedent, Louis Anthony Di Leo
Blackletter: Fiction And A Wall Of Precedent, Louis Anthony Di Leo
Dissertations
The eight stories that make up Blackletter explore situations in which people are forced to challenge the legitimacy of authority, rethink and rebuild their own identities, or confront their own involvement in human and environmental degradation. A central theme running throughout the collection is law, broadly, and the ways in which people adhere to or sometimes break from a particular rule, be it social or legislative. In each case, the role of law and its correlation to place and identity—either overt or veiled—serves as a major component of each story. In this way I locate these stories within a sociolegal …
The Topology Of Absence, Nora E. Culik
The Topology Of Absence, Nora E. Culik
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
“The Topology of Absence” literalizes triangulations, hyperbeloids, and the concept of the limit in the story of “locating” a lost mother. This story, like “The Physicist’s Basement” in the July 2014 issue, is part of a series that worries about competing notions of mathematics, i.e., mathematics as some sort of disembodied configuration or as emergent in the material reality of human life.
That Which Binds Us, Tracey M. Dover
That Which Binds Us, Tracey M. Dover
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
This novel follows three individuals struggling with isolation and loneliness. Rina, a twenty-two year-old college student is studying abroad in Japan when she learns of her grandfather’s death. As his last living relative, she decides to leave her studies and a burgeoning romance to take care of her grandfather’s final affairs. At his funeral she meets Marcus, a mysterious man whose past ties in with her own. Marcus gives Rina the opportunity to uncover secrets surrounding her family and forces her to question not only her grandfather’s past but also her own identity. Tilnu is an immortal with a foggy …
Diario De Perla Jimenez, Brenda Dorantes
Diario De Perla Jimenez, Brenda Dorantes
World Languages and Cultures
The aim of this project is to present the effect of the immigration issue in the United States, with a direct focus in San Luis Obispo, and including a spread of intercultural knowledge between the Hispanic and the Caucasian community. Through a fictional short story, the manifestation of these ideas will relate to current events occurring in our society today. These events focus primarily on immigration in California, deportation issues, socioeconomic issues in Mexico, and the cultural barrier seen in Mexican and American cultures; expressed through the main character: a young college student named Perla.
My primary goal in completing …
The Real Thing, Ruben T. Rodriguez
The Real Thing, Ruben T. Rodriguez
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
THE REAL THING is a collection of short stories released from the confinement of the everyday. The stories allow characters to pop off the page from every angle. With an eye for anthropomorphism and ear for lyric, the collection is comprised of twenty-nine short stories, nineteen of which work in a flash fiction form.
Magical in its motions, and charming in its spirit, The Real Thing explores life’s losses and gains through the lens of the strange and at times the absurd. It invites its readers to cast away expectation, sit back, and watch the show.
"And While We Were Here", Benjamin Rader
"And While We Were Here", Benjamin Rader
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The creative thesis, "And While We Were Here" contains a critical introduction titled, "Narrative Design and the Aesthetics of Collage in Ben Rader's "Picked Me a Plum" and “The (re)Witnessing of Disenfranchised Grief", a story titled, "Picked Me a Plum," and another story titled, "The (re)Witnessing of Disenfranchised Grief".
The Dirty Five, Mackleen Desravines
The Dirty Five, Mackleen Desravines
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
No one woke up in the morning and decided, yes, I’m going to take something that isn’t mine. It usually starts with a thought. That thought taps into desperation, which causes the imagination to run wild. When Aqua suggested to us that we take what we wanted, at first it didn’t seem like stealing.
If only the world had been kinder to us. If the world told us the truth about how cold it was and you are nothing until you prove something, maybe we wouldn’t have done it. If we had the virtue of being patient, perhaps we …
Jameson's Story: A Tale Of The Human Condition Through Fiction, Steven Kubitza
Jameson's Story: A Tale Of The Human Condition Through Fiction, Steven Kubitza
Honors Projects
A work of fiction focusing on two characters living in the same world, but under much different circumstances. One must try and find out who he is while the other is attempting to uphold his way of life in a society threatening to take it away. The story delves into the ideas of a somewhat dystopian world; one in which our society could ultimately mirror in the near future. The work is unfinished, which is explained in the reflection paper at the beginning of the document.
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