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Last Love Poem, Mary Ann Avallone-O’Gorman

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Perfect Tense, Claudia A. Geagan

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Complicated Footwork, Patricia Feeney

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Disordered, Christine Stewart-Nuñez

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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When The Sap Flows: Affection And Industry In The Maple Woods, Nicholas R. Littman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis arises from my time waiting for, collecting, and boiling sap from maple trees into syrup. I spent four months in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York working for a modern commercial sugaring operation and sugaring in the old-fashioned manner—with buckets and a wood-fired evaporator.

The narrative follows my journey as a lifelong Westerner traveling east to learn an old tradition with my hands. Instead of observing how the warmth of a changing climate was affecting maple sugaring, I was thrust into a landscape defined by cold, during one of the coldest winters on record in the Northeast. …

Moon Jellies, Christina Garbarino

Honors Theses

A collection of short poems.

Red Star Studded Chaos: Sex Scandal, Juan Salas

Masters Theses

Leon de Cruz is a fame hungry journalist that published sex pictures of the greatest pop group in the world: Red Star Studded Chaos. The group was genetically engineered to be physically perfect and live a minimum of 10,000 years without aging. Leon's news article about the group catapults him into international superstardom, and RSSC's only rival, a recently founded Christian pop group called Properness, wants to manipulate Leon into using his new found fame to write a novel that condemns the very debauchery RSSC stands for.

Looking to capitalize on the chaos sparked by the sex photographs, Properness's management …

Commonthought (2014), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

The Judgments, D G. Basham

Liberal Studies (MA) Final Essays

A collection of eight short stories titled The Judgments. The first seven stories take characters that have a clear weakness with regards to one of the seven deadly sins of gluttony, lust, greed, wrath, sloth, envy, or pride and play out the story of the choices they make based on who they believe they are and who they believe everyone else is in comparison. It becomes evident throughout the stories that one deadly sin will branch out into one or more of the others. The eighth and final story is one of redemption in which one man finally sees a …

You Were Born One Time, Quitman Marshall

Ninety-Six Press

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What Holds Him To This World, Phebe Davidson

Ninety-Six Press

No abstract provided.

Ua68/6/2/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Student Organizations Speculative Fiction Society, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records of the Speculative Fiction Society.

War Story, Brian Taylor

Bryant Literary Review

A barrage of bullets sprays through the air,

crossing the battlefield as the enemy pushes forward.

Curly*, Nora Barry

Bryant Literary Review

He sits on the ground his long hair flowing in the breeze. Beside him is the burial scaffold of his child.

Mommy What Is War For?, Ellen

Bryant Literary Review

One rainy day some people get scared

spill drips of innuendos

Luke's Dad, Cari Oleskewicz

Bryant Literary Review

Ellen needs a drink, and wants to slap her sister for suggesting a fountain soda at the food court.

Alzheimer's, Theadora Siranian

Bryant Literary Review

At night an ancient giant with smooth blue skin

pulls the stopper from the bottom of the world,

The Man Who Shoots Stop Signs, William Jolliff

Bryant Literary Review

Standing alone on a dark road, maybe he believes

the new ones are virgins, too hard to resist.

Nancy Underwood, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Or it may have been Susan.

Second grade; 1958--

Where The Grass Is Greener, Paul Sohar

Bryant Literary Review

Although very little of the late April sunshine actually wedged itself down to the pavement, the narrow streets of lower Manhattan

The Fishing Trip, David Dragone

Bryant Literary Review

The waves came up on shore, speaking in tongues

While I waited for the ocean's pitched language

The Madness Of Ida Mae, Christine Bagley

Bryant Literary Review

I stood in line at Stop & Shop in my Liz Taylor wig and a tight yellow pantsuit that pulled across my fanny like an ace bandage.

What It Takes, Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

All it takes is one blue rowboat tied to a buoy,

and its reflection, and this moment

Learning To Shoot At Things That Moved, Rick Benjamin

Bryant Literary Review

Soup-cans, tires searing in the summer

air, coke bottles so old the red rubbed

Late Projection, Rick Benjamin

Bryant Literary Review

My twin turns toward the camera

he's propped into the elbow

At The Eye Doctor's, Stephen R. Roberts

Bryant Literary Review

The doctor asks me to read

the eye chart, line five.

I think it begins with D

Symbolon, Dwayne Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

A sheep's knuckle

cracked in two,

half to me

half to you.

Neighbor Kid, Bob Davis

Bryant Literary Review

Neighbor kid is so weird, that I know his name

but think of him as "neighbor kid."

Photos Of Cuteness Flash Around The World, Charles (Harper) Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Owen, the rescued baby hippo, mistakes

a giant male tortoise, Mzee, for his mom.

Sleeping God, V. P. Loggins

Bryant Literary Review

On the ninth day of creation God

Had already slept for 63 hours.