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Porch Friendship, Grace O’Hanlon

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Desire, César Olvera

Calliope

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Face To Face (Reprise), Hinagirl

Calliope

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Whisper Of Peace, Emma Kaufman

Calliope

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Art Of Sight, Sarah Akhtar

Calliope

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The Ace Of Spades, Sarah Akhtar

Calliope

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Demon In The Dark: A Collection Of Short Stories., Giovanna Claudia Burkett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is a collection of short stories revolving around themes of grief, isolation, and survivor’s guilt. Each story is standalone even though they share overlapping motifs, as well as having a few references within the same universe. These protagonists often appear to be unreliable narrators, though the amount of reliability they depict should be determined by the reader. The protagonists encounter situations that cause them to question their own sanity and make them relive their greatest fears and confront traumatic memories, which may serve as a connection to the supernatural elements within the stories. Settings within each story …

The Light Farm., John Wrestling Brewster Clay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Light Farm is a creative examination of the convergence and divergence of truth and meaning, told in a collection of three short stories that both supplements, and is supplemented by a thesis exhibition of fine art. These stories are told using an episodic format that facilitates world building across time periods, while the sculptures, photographs, and text within the exhibition function as a physical entry point into a space in which the line between fact and fiction is tested. The impetus for this project was a lifelong interest in the disorderly confluence of corporatism, power, mortality, morality, human potential, …

Recipe To Remember: An Exploration Of Self-Publishing Creative Agency, Janet L. Gerges

Honors College Theses

As a poet, I have learned some of the ins and outs of traditional poetry publication—which is anything but conventional—through other research endeavors. Majoring in creative writing at Pace University has given me access to a plethora of resources regarding ways to publish, including the atypical route of self-publishing zines, through the Pace Zine Library. Zines are an ultimately free creative outlet that many artists use to display multimedia work and produce a publication of a different, more homemade quality than that of traditionally published work.

The traditional, more harrowing approach to poetry publication is to break out by publishing …

Michigan Fiction, Bryce Durfey

Honors Theses

The screenplay Michigan Fiction follows a failing children's book author who is desperate for another taste of success. His father has told him his entire life that success by any means is all that matters. After a chance meeting with a more successful crime-novelist colleague, and learning of his next book idea, he decides to follow him to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to steal his idea for a book. He stays in a motel where the original killer once stayed and killed. Things go awry when he accidentally murders someone. After the town thinks it's the old killer returning, …

Maria Sabina And The Wise Ones, Robin Bruce

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Maria Sabina was born Maria Sabina Magdalena Garcia in 1894, in the principality of Huautla, located in Oaxaca, Mexico. She’s known as a healer and poet, though she would most likely refer to herself as a woman doctor, whose language becomes beautiful with the help of the psylocibin mushroom, which she affectionately refers to as little saints or holy children. In 1953, American banker, R. Gordon Wasson and his wife, pediatrician Valentina Pavlovna, were the first non-Indigenous people to witness one of Sabina’s ceremonies. Novice ethnomycologists and anthropologists, the couple traveled to Southern Mexico to witness a ceremony in which …

The Bones: A Novel-In-Progress, Chris Stark

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

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Entre Magia Y Olvido: A Narrative Journey Of Latinos/Hispanics In Fantasy Literature, Kendra Edith Lara

Theses and Dissertations

This story was born from imagination and a deep desire for inclusivity. “Corazon de Magia” is told through the perspective of Julietta Hernandez, a young Mexican American woman who is thrust into a magical adventure. Aided by friendship and intuition, Julietta investigates a mysterious pendulum that is the key to finding a missing shopkeeper. This story is a tribute to the Hispanic/Latino community- a celebration of strength, resilience and possibility.

We can be magic too.

Art And Effort, Saul Gabriel Dominguez Ii

Theses and Dissertations

Since childhood I questioned living and my life itself. I wondered the extent of our own free will since people live to cry, to hate, to think they’ve been born simply to die. I use philosophers and some contemporary fiction to portray a lens of living where we must romanticize the present, rather than an uncertain future, and remove the idea that there is a reason for our living. This method of present thinking is a characteristic of a life-well lived. The manuscript will largely be told from my point of view, a young aspiring author with limited experience, through …

Queer Hope And Asexual Desire In Nella Larsen's Passing And Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Jeremy Buckner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2019 - present)

This project examines Nella Larsen’s Passing and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse together as queer artifacts in hopes of shedding new light on how race and sexuality can be reexamined across national modes of thinking. Although these writers’ backgrounds provide them with different bodies of knowledge, Larsen’s Irene and Woolf’s Lily have much more in common than might first appear. For one, even if racialization is more explicit—and presents more of an obstacle—for Irene, race is an important factor for both characters. Additionally, Irene and Lily both express profound discontent with marriage, Irene in her marriage to Brian and Lily …

Ama, Juan Gabriel Mendoza

Theses and Dissertations

This collection of interconnected testimonios - essays - follows the life of Socorro Benitez Celedon, an immigrant grandmother who spent decades laboring in the agricultural fields across the United States. After crossing the border from Mexico to Texas at the age of 12, Socorro navigates the harsh realities of migrant farm work low low-paying jobs, discrimination, segregation, and cruel realities, while nurturing dreams for her family's future. The stories shift between her early years in her small town in northern Mexico, San Jose De Raices Nuevo Leon, to her migrant life planting, picking, and harvesting fruits and vegetables, to her …

Every Law School Should Have A Poet, Susan Ayres

Faculty Scholarship

This is an imaginative work that explores gaslighting in the workplace.

La Niebla, El Delirio, Cindy Catherine Martínez Martínez

Ciencias Sociales, Humanidades y Ciencias Políticas

Con un lenguaje fresco y sencillo, La niebla, el delirio realiza un trayecto imaginario por los mundos que trae la autora desde su memoria. Ente Trenes vagón capilla ardiente y vagón cementerio, el viaje sucede entre lugares de la infancia -"aparecimiento único de una lejanía, por más cerca que pueda estar"- y lugares inexistentes. Hay varios poemas en los que se percibe el equilibrio entre emoción, ritmo y tema. El libro fue escrito hace una década y algunos poemas fueron publicados en revistas y antologías nacionales, pero no se había editado como unidad; por lo que este poemario es …

Clothed, Jasleen Sekhon Com 26

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Dedication

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Shooting And Landing Upon The Stars, Natura Barnett Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Remains, Jasleen Sekhon Com 26

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Meet The Pulse Editorial Board

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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In Lectio Divina, David Ting Com 25

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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House On The Edge Of A Starfield, Spencer Sweeney Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Pulse, Vol. 4 Spring 2025

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Costume For A Foreigner, Anonymous Student

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Across The Bridge, Ashley Lesser Com 26

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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From Lovers To Strangers, George Ladas Com 27

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Letter From The Editors, Anvitha Soordelu Com 27, Dean Chien Com 27

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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