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Boys Are Like Books, Katherine Peterson Apr 2021

Boys Are Like Books, Katherine Peterson

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.


America The Free, Marijke Pieters-Kwiers Apr 2021

America The Free, Marijke Pieters-Kwiers

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.


Stubborn Love, Jesse Holliday Apr 2021

Stubborn Love, Jesse Holliday

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.


A Bit Odd, Alison Erves Apr 2021

A Bit Odd, Alison Erves

The Tuxedo Archives

No abstract provided.


Trying To Fix It, Alisha Ragon Apr 2021

Trying To Fix It, Alisha Ragon

The Tuxedo Archives

She was trying to fix it.

She walked in with purpose, and nerves on fire.

As hard as she tried to hold up her badass countenance, they could still tell she was tired. She walked with swagger, put distance between her steps. This convenience store’s law of awkward nondisclosure was helpful in self-defense. As messed up as she had become, there were still people here much more fucked than her. She said hello to the man at the counter, with lowered eyes. She avoided other consumers with grace; she simply stepped down the wrong aisle.


In The Beginning, Jeffrey Wincek Apr 2021

In The Beginning, Jeffrey Wincek

The Tuxedo Archives

In the beginning there was the Computer and the Screen, and the Computer was inert and void and darkness was over the face of the Screen. And the Author’s finger pressed the Power Button and the Computer Booted Up and there was Light on the face of the Screen. And the Author saw it was good.


Gil And Ki In Couples Therapy, Jeffrey Wincek Apr 2021

Gil And Ki In Couples Therapy, Jeffrey Wincek

The Tuxedo Archives

The office is tidy and uncluttered; tasteful and well lighted. The decor is mid-century modern with an occasional treasure from antiquity featured here and there: tiny bronze and terra cotta Nabatean oil lamps, Sumerian fetishes, facsimiles of baked clay tablets bearing cuneiform script. Other objects de vertu rest on rosewood bases or under glass on the desk and in bookcases. Except for a glorious Persian rug, ruby, topaz, lapis and carnelian in hue, the color scheme is muted and neutral. Dr. Esther Aalyah sits at her desk. She has a manila folder in front of her. There are colored tags …


F People Were Seasons, Yvonne Bamba Apr 2021

F People Were Seasons, Yvonne Bamba

The Tuxedo Archives

He and I are sitting in the middle of my staircase, squished together on the same step, our limbs overflowing and dangling off the edges. We have our respective beverages in hand—his beer and my glass of red wine—facing each other with our legs bent, contently intertwined. We already touched base on our weapons of choice for the zombie apocalypse, the sports and instruments and dreams we gave up on in high school, and whether our day was more like The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face or Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen. Now, we’re brainstorming names for the future Alaskan husky …


A Story For Alex, Or For Me, Alisha Ragon Apr 2021

A Story For Alex, Or For Me, Alisha Ragon

The Tuxedo Archives

It was the whoring hour.

Ready the sheets and the lingerie.

Ready the moans and the delicious delights to be discovered.

Ready the bodies wanting and hungry.

Ready the minds, sore for distraction, aching for bliss.

Slowly the sliding of cloth, flesh venturing out into the open air

Hands gliding over the landscape of his torso; breath breaking from composure to ecstasy A landscape not her own. Breath not meant to be broken.

Rein it in.


The Clinic, Bri Wilson Apr 2021

The Clinic, Bri Wilson

The Tuxedo Archives

“What are you here for?”

Jeanette glanced up from her clasped hands. The questioner - a middle aged woman wearing a kitten sweater - stared at her expectantly.

Jeanette spun the ring around her fourth finger. “To forget,” she muttered. She should have taken it off.


The Shattering, Bri Wilson Apr 2021

The Shattering, Bri Wilson

The Tuxedo Archives

I’m dead. But I’m still here. My soul got left behind. I didn’t believe in souls but now I have to and

I don’t remember when I was last alive. My memories have been blurred, shaken, chopped. I can’t recall how it ended, there was a lot of pain, then it stopped. Suddenly.

(how did I die.)


Stress To Success: A Children's Book About Handling Stressful Situations, Marina Pennycuff Apr 2021

Stress To Success: A Children's Book About Handling Stressful Situations, Marina Pennycuff

Honors Projects

For this project, I investigated the importance of bibliotherapy with school-aged children through the construction of my own children’s book that is focused around social-emotional aspects that are important for development. In particular, this children’s book was focused around different stressful events that can occur in a child’s life. This project allowed me to have a hands-on approach in researching this central topic. Another major goal for this project was that it granted me the ability to create a physical copy of a book that I will be able to use as a tool in my future career working with …


Mother/God, Sarah Johnson Apr 2021

Mother/God, Sarah Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My collection, Mother/God, attempts to look at my own growing up and how it has affected my beliefs and self in the presence, while also looking at the choices my mother made in raising me. The central thread throughout the collection is my relationship with my mother and the love that's endured those hardships. It explores my mother's past up until the hardest parts of motherhood in section one, The Mother. Then, section two titled The Daughter focuses on my own rebellion of how I was raised and an exploration of existentialism that was, in a lot of ways, …


20 Things, Reann Parker Apr 2021

20 Things, Reann Parker

Honors Theses

20 Things is a short young adult novel that explores a variety of topics and themes, from mental health, recovery, and self discovery to race, love, and friendship. Beginning with a high school girl named Halle waking up in a hospital after a suicide attempt, the novel is a coming of age story about the help Halle receives and what she goes through in trying to find reasons to keep living. The novel is divided into ten chapters: “Waking Up,” “Going Home,” “Arriving,” “Being Honest,” “Keeping the Faith,” “Soul Searching,” “Willingness,” “Maintaining,” “Checking In,” and “Living.” Each chapter represents the …


The Monsters And The Translators: An Apologia For The Study Of History, Walker Cosgrove Apr 2021

The Monsters And The Translators: An Apologia For The Study Of History, Walker Cosgrove

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

No longer do we believe in monsters; we’ve reached a ripe old, disenchanted age. In the 21st century, we romance vampires, we train dragons, and we pacify Greek gods. In our enlightened state, we produce novels and films that offer the perspective of the monsters in an attempt to help us understand them and make them seem less monstrous. Yet, we continue to demonize, and the monstrous survives in the “other” with whom we disagree, fueled, no doubt, by our highly politicized society today. It appears we’ve learned nothing in our enlightened disenchantment. I want to consider here one such …


Ghosts In The Wood Pile, Susannah Rand Apr 2021

Ghosts In The Wood Pile, Susannah Rand

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

GHOSTS IN THE WOOD PILE is a creative thesis comprised of an artist statement, statement of creative influences, and five short stories. The artist statement serves to depict my goals in writing this collection—namely, to provide investigatory, critical, and joyful fantasies for a young queer audience—and addresses what work still needs to be done to complete this collection. The collection itself explores dystopian and fantastical alternate realities in which characters struggle with desire, selfhood, and societal expectation. A sample of the collection is included here.

Advisor: Jennine Capo Crucet


History Mysteries: An Exploration Into The Development Of A Mystery At The Outset Of The 1918 Spanish Flu In A New England Mill Town, Mark Lawton, Tess Stockslager Apr 2021

History Mysteries: An Exploration Into The Development Of A Mystery At The Outset Of The 1918 Spanish Flu In A New England Mill Town, Mark Lawton, Tess Stockslager

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Creative and Artistic


Wildflower Launch, Anna Schale Apr 2021

Wildflower Launch, Anna Schale

The Oval

No abstract provided.


To My Beloved Body,, Hanna Carstensen Apr 2021

To My Beloved Body,, Hanna Carstensen

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Rust Blooming, Alec Bartell Apr 2021

Rust Blooming, Alec Bartell

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Jupiter, Caroline Tuss Apr 2021

Jupiter, Caroline Tuss

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Lingering, Andrea Halland Apr 2021

Lingering, Andrea Halland

The Oval

No abstract provided.


I Will Not Beg, I Am An Oyster, Frances Brauneis Apr 2021

I Will Not Beg, I Am An Oyster, Frances Brauneis

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Watering Stones, Madeline Kelly Apr 2021

Watering Stones, Madeline Kelly

The Oval

No abstract provided.


False Joy, Wren Roe Apr 2021

False Joy, Wren Roe

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Contributors' Notes, Back Cover Apr 2021

Contributors' Notes, Back Cover

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Exposure, Melissa Paulsen Apr 2021

Exposure, Melissa Paulsen

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Treetops At 6:32 A.M., Alec Bartell Apr 2021

Treetops At 6:32 A.M., Alec Bartell

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Deflated, But Hanging In There, Cass Sissel Apr 2021

Deflated, But Hanging In There, Cass Sissel

The Oval

No abstract provided.


Waiting, Will Clark Apr 2021

Waiting, Will Clark

The Oval

No abstract provided.