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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
The Lights In The Dark: A Covid-19 Journey, Kristen Justice Palado
The Lights In The Dark: A Covid-19 Journey, Kristen Justice Palado
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
My project is entirely focused on the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, particularly when CSUMB moved to a virtual setting, and how a global pandemic brought a family closer together. COVID-19 was a terrifying disease that began in the Spring of 2020 and instilled in all of us fear, stress, and anxiety. Families were scared to go out and have family parties, schools shut down and abruptly moved to a virtual modality for teaching, and the mental health of the world began to decrease. For this project, I will be using my own voice and experiences to create …
Evading Oblivionland, Caitlin Faria
Evading Oblivionland, Caitlin Faria
Honors Program Theses and Projects
When I initially started this project, I hoped to tell stories in genres that I love while exploring the impact my father has had on my life. Although I prefer to write fiction, the nonfiction essays of this piece show who my father is through my eyes as well as provide me with the space to explore and find words for my own fears of losing him one day. The fictional stories interwoven throughout also show how my father inspires my writing even when it does not directly involve him, or a character exactly like him. For example, my dad …
Scary Stories, Maja Holmquist
An Ode To The Kaimin Office, Andrea Halland
No One Understands Kanye Except Me, Kate Alexander
The Oval, 2022
The Oval
This issue includes creative work from undergraduate students at the University of Montana.
Missoula Deer, Hattie Smith
Down Hill, Shasta Hecht
An Anxious Hitchhiker's Inner Monologue, Mckenna Johnson
An Anxious Hitchhiker's Inner Monologue, Mckenna Johnson
The Oval
No abstract provided.
Heartbeat, Mazana Boerboom
[They], Mary Alsobrooks
[They], Mary Alsobrooks
Poetry MFA Theses
A poetry collection centered around the exploration of identity through the people and places that shaped the poet's childhood.
A Group Of Hyenas Is A Cackle, Kristin Gallagher
A Group Of Hyenas Is A Cackle, Kristin Gallagher
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A GROUP OF HYENAS IS A CACKLE is a memoir about sisterhood, success, and self-worth. The memoir spans approximately twenty-five years in the memoir-speaker’s life and is divided into five sections. Book one explores her childhood through high school graduation, focusing on her experiences as the eldest sister in a hardscrabble, IrishCatholic family living in New England during the 1990s and its central defining eventthe death of her mother from a drug overdose. Book two examines a slice of adulthood in the protagonist’s twenties when she was a law student living in New York City with her sister. The remaining …
Own Way Girl, Melissa I. Aldana
Own Way Girl, Melissa I. Aldana
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
OWN WAY GIRL is a memoir about growing up in a Caribbean family of women. The memoir covers the narrator’s tentative beginnings as she was adopted by a single woman in Barbados at three months old until she turns sixteen and learns the secret that has weighed heavily on both her birth and adopted mother. This memoir explores the narrator’s layered relationship with her adopted mother, her complicated relationship with her birth mother, as well family dynamics with her adopted grandmother and adopted sisters. It interrogates the nature of kin and blood ties and probes the ultimate question of what …
And The Light Shines On: Sic Luceat Lux Vestra, Ana Schnellmann
And The Light Shines On: Sic Luceat Lux Vestra, Ana Schnellmann
Arrow Rock
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Friendship In A Time Of Pandemic, Laura Reilly
Lost Routine, Melissa Fritz
Mother Superior, Brandon R. Hansen
Mother Superior, Brandon R. Hansen
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Prologue /The Lake Within
I am a fisherman. Every time I raise my arm to cast, I’m searching for an answer.
What is a lake?
I throw my lure at the lilies of my childhood, the sunken log of my crib. With every cast I hope the truth will follow it back, this little piece of me I offer to the mystery.
My earliest memories are at the bus stop, where a shroud of mist swirled about me and I listed side-to-side, six-AM eyes drooping while I waited for that big yellow ship to bust through the fog and …