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Autobiography Of A Mountain Lion, Christopher Allan Prewitt

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Christopher Allan Prewitt on March 24, 2010.

Under Glass: The Girl With A Thousand Christmas Trees, Jen Hirt

University of Akron Press Publications

According to Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, when she went back to Ohio, her city was gone. For Jen Hirt, her Strongsville, Ohio greenhouses were gone. Her ancestry, bloodlines, memories, and her complete identity were replaced by a large-chain pharmacy store. Four generations taken away by the wrecking ball; fourteen greenhouses dismantled and shattered. Under Glass traces the rise and fall of the family business and the family itself.

Hirt is the girl with a thousand Christmas trees, growing up surrounded by life and vitality. She is the greenhouse filled with hope and growth. Then the rubble sets in—financial pressures, …

Court Green: Dossier: 1970s, Columbia College Chicago

Court Green

An annual poetry magazine with a different theme for each issue; printed from 2004 to 2015.

Faith In Fiction? Solzhenitsyn's One Day As A Practical Defense Of Fiction, Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

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The Eye Of A Whale In Tonga, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Real Travel Adventures about kayaking in Tonga and encountering whales.

Requiem For The Orchard, Oliver De La Paz

University of Akron Press Publications

These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place “where the Ferris Wheel/ was the tallest thing in the valley,” where a boy would learn “to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken’s neck/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.” Looking back, the poet wrestles with the meaning of labor in the apple orchards and “the filthy dollars we’d wad into our pockets,” or the rites of passage that included sinking a knife into the flank of a dead chestnut horse. In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties—or …

Vol. Xlvii, No. 1: Carrie Brown's Fiction: Always Compassionate, Always Surprising, Mariflo Stephens

The Hollins Critic

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A Floating World: Stories, Karen Best

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Floating World is a collection of short stories inspired by fairy tales. Often set in worlds where the mundane and the fantastic come together, these stories explore moments of strangeness that slip beyond the bounds of realist fiction. Fantastical events intrude into mundane reality as characters attempt to reconcile the known with the unknowable.

We Will Make Your Head Explode, Jaclyn Sullivan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left …

Contact, Brittany Osbourne

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This fiction novel focuses on the Sankofa philosophy that we as human beings must learn from our past to better understand our current existence and future; however, sometimes we choose to ignore or suppress the past because remembering it may be too hurtful. When we forget what happened yesterday our outlook on today and tomorrow becomes distorted. Contact is a novel that attempts to explore how 'living in the now' alone becomes problematic because the past'if not remembered'will come back to haunt you. The erasure of the line between Diasporic Africans and their African past is the primary theme explored. …

Skunk River Review 2009-10, Vol 22, Austin Leeds, Kari S. Griffin, Ezmeralda Montemayor, Faith Burket, Jason Scholbrock, Hillary Ann Brighton, Eric J. Linn, Paul Richard Adam, Sage Devaney, Melanie M. Cox, Latroya Marie Sickler, Zach Dalaba, Andrew Kopaska, Sylvia King, Kristen Glick, Sara L. Roggemann, Jason Lighthall, Paige Sanders, Catherine Drahota, Jason Lee Borkowski, Douglas J. Meyer, Roselyn Harbart, Shelaine Harbart

Skunk River Review

Welcome to the 2009-2010 edition of The Skunk River Review!

We received a record number of entries this year, making this volume one of the best and most competitive! We even added a new category called Art & Literary Analysis to include a growing number of submissions dedicated to inspiration and critique. Each year we continue to receive many fine examples of student writing. Selection is a challenging process but enjoyable as the submissions range from a variety of topics and styles. Selected entries were only minimally edited for clarity.

The Skunk River Review focuses on students from various DMACC …

"Haunting Experiences: Ghosts In Contemporary Folklore," By Diane E. Goldstein Et Al., Linda Levitt

Faculty Publications

Review of Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas. Haunting experiences: Ghosts in contemporary folklore. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. Paperback, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87421-636-3.

Sequoya Review, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga

Sequoya Review

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Table Of Contents (V. 18, 2010)

Intertext

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Book Review: Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "This tension—between the romantic ideal of the road trip and its inability to meet high expectations— is clearly evident in Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, by Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein. While the book’s concept is appealing, its content challenging and insightful, I felt an air of sadness throughout Girldrive; and this road trip to “redefine feminism” was, at its heart, disappointing."

Parnassus 2010

Parnassus

The 2010 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Exposure, Chloe Haagen

The Oval

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Sandcastles, Kevin Sheetz

The Oval

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The Wee Cottage, Amanda Stessen

Intertext

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Respect Street, Evan Mychal Smith

Intertext

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Great Expectations, A Dead Chicken, And My Crazy Abuela, Elena Acosta

Capstone Research Projects

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On Being Human And Other Afflictions, James Roger Weaver

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

A Note from the Author: Writing has been a way for me to process emotions. I wrote the poems in this collection in the early 90's which was a trans-formative period in my life. Current friends are surprised at the dark nature of this collection because they do not reflect the person I am now. One must travel through the darkness to recognize the light. I hope readers can find some meaning in them. I hope you enjoy the poetry. I ask you to take notice of the Creative Commons license. This license allows you to download my poetry and …

Volume 42 (2010), C. V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2010 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover was photographed by Justin Roper. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Nicholas Laughridge. The Broad River Review Editor's Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The prize in poetry was awarded to Jennifer Hart for her work titled, "In August." The prize in fiction was awarded to Sarah Steadman for her work …

Pajammin’, Amelia Bienstock

Intertext

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Intertext 2010 — Complete Issue

Intertext

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Potential Energy, Edward Bull

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Potential Energy. (Under the direction of Pat Rushin.) Potential Energy is a collection of sixteen short stories. They range from the fictional to the autofictional to the entirely non-fictional. In all of them, characters both real and imagined struggle to live and define themselves in a world that is outside their control. They cope with the inevitability of loss, dangers both internal and external, and the passing of their own greatness. Some of these characters become lost while others learn to embrace life on its own terms'to accept 'without hope or expectation.' More often, they are not lost or enlightened, …

Carlo Flunks The Seventh Grade, Greg Alan Brownderville

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 11

Boy In The Forest, Joanna Pearson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 78-79

Using Facebook To Teach Rhetorical Analysis, Jane Fife

English Faculty Publications

The attraction of Facebook is a puzzle to many people over the age of thirty five, and that includes most college faculty. Yet students confess to spending significant amounts of time on Facebook, sometimes hours a day. If you teach in a computer classroom, you have probably observed students using Facebook when you walk in the room. Literacy practices that fall outside the realm of traditional academic writing, like Facebook, can easily be seen as a threat to print literacy by teachers, especially when they sneak into the classroom uninvited as students check their Facebook profiles instead of participating in …

A Painting Of Us, Okla Elliott

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21