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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
"And While We Were Here", Benjamin Rader
"And While We Were Here", Benjamin Rader
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The creative thesis, "And While We Were Here" contains a critical introduction titled, "Narrative Design and the Aesthetics of Collage in Ben Rader's "Picked Me a Plum" and “The (re)Witnessing of Disenfranchised Grief", a story titled, "Picked Me a Plum," and another story titled, "The (re)Witnessing of Disenfranchised Grief".
The Dirty Five, Mackleen Desravines
The Dirty Five, Mackleen Desravines
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
No one woke up in the morning and decided, yes, I’m going to take something that isn’t mine. It usually starts with a thought. That thought taps into desperation, which causes the imagination to run wild. When Aqua suggested to us that we take what we wanted, at first it didn’t seem like stealing.
If only the world had been kinder to us. If the world told us the truth about how cold it was and you are nothing until you prove something, maybe we wouldn’t have done it. If we had the virtue of being patient, perhaps we …
Jameson's Story: A Tale Of The Human Condition Through Fiction, Steven Kubitza
Jameson's Story: A Tale Of The Human Condition Through Fiction, Steven Kubitza
Honors Projects
A work of fiction focusing on two characters living in the same world, but under much different circumstances. One must try and find out who he is while the other is attempting to uphold his way of life in a society threatening to take it away. The story delves into the ideas of a somewhat dystopian world; one in which our society could ultimately mirror in the near future. The work is unfinished, which is explained in the reflection paper at the beginning of the document.
Short Fiction: Ulmus, Ward Heilman
The Librarian, Abby Edele
Danse Russe, Danyelle Pullens
Good Things Bad People, Zachary M. Alley
The Politics Of Salutations, Bret Lundstrom
The Classics, Blake Fields
Collateral Damage: Exploring The Metaphors And Realities Of War In Three Fictional Narratives, Jessica N. Dancisak
Collateral Damage: Exploring The Metaphors And Realities Of War In Three Fictional Narratives, Jessica N. Dancisak
Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects
Since earliest recorded history, human beings have been going to war with each other. It seems that this is an integral and inescapable part of our existence. As humanity has advanced and expanded over time, our wars have advanced and expanded in stride, to the point that we are capable of destroying all life on the planet “at the push of a button.” This awesome power, coupled with an impulse so primal that we struggle to understand it, is a dangerous and terrifying prospect. It is vitally important that, in this age of drone strikes and nuclear proliferation, we do …
Looker: Stories, George Robert Hargett
Looker: Stories, George Robert Hargett
Master's Theses
The following stories, completed by the author between August 2013 and February 2015, deal with love, obscurity, isolation, failure, vulnerability and insecurity, looking and losing, the fears tied up in all these, and, once in a while, gaining.
Another Word For Autumn And Other Stories, Henry Burgard Shepard Iii
Another Word For Autumn And Other Stories, Henry Burgard Shepard Iii
Master's Theses
The subject, style, and form of these stories are different from one another. At first glance, there seems to be no obvious thematic connection throughout this collection, no binding thread that ties them together. However, what allows these stories to exist side by side is their focus. The characters in these stories are human, no matter what situation they find themselves in, be it strange, fantastic, or mundane, they strive to achieve their desires. Each story takes a different approach to create a succinct feeling, all parts working toward eliciting a certain emotion. In one story, a family is powerless …
Blood At The Root, April Schofield
Blood At The Root, April Schofield
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a coming of age story about two very different boys – Jason, a Northerner who ends up stuck in a small Southern town and Billy, a Southern boy with an abusive father. The boys become friends and grow up learning the dark secrets that are allowed to fester in a tiny southern town ruled by the Good Ol’ Boy System of justice. The story chronicles how their shared experiences change them in ways they never imagined and ultimately destroys their friendship and their lives. Through a history of violence and prejudice, Billy and Jason learn who they really …
The Escape Artists, Daniel Gene Hernandez
The Escape Artists, Daniel Gene Hernandez
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
My thesis, “The Escape Artists”, is a collection of short fiction that represents most of the work I did as a creative writing master’s student. The title is taken from my longest story, a narrative about a young man’s struggle to avoid violence in a federal prison. As a title, “The Escape Artists” also captures major themes in my other stories; characters often pursue emotional escapism or literally seek to evade predators in my fiction. As a writer, I often explore breakdowns in social order, so my stories tend to be set in turbulent, oppressive political climates or else inside …
Pathologized Peculiarities: A Collection Of Short Stories, Kasey Jones
Pathologized Peculiarities: A Collection Of Short Stories, Kasey Jones
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis is comprised of three short stories that explore the pathologization of perceived social abnormalities and the isolation that often follows. "The Firmament" focuses on ostracization due to social difference, while "Shards" and "A Box of Rocks" focus on a specific 'abnormality'—schizoid personality disorder and high-functioning autism, respectively. These stories are not exact representations of a specific disorder, but my interpretation of the materials that I encountered during my research.
Cycle Of Return, Clancy Gabriel Daniell Mcgilligan
Cycle Of Return, Clancy Gabriel Daniell Mcgilligan
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
An American reporter in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is fired by a local English-language newspaper after he and his lover, a copy editor at the paper, use drugs and she overdoses and dies. The reporter, whose name is Francis, feels partly responsible for her death. He also feels guilty about his life as an expatriate in Cambodia, a poor, developing country that has a large aid community and a history of communist killings and war. He decides to find whoever sold the drugs to his lover, Sara, and to exact some sort of punishment or revenge. However, he’s uncertain what he …
Las Vegas Paperboy, Matthew O'Brien
Las Vegas Paperboy, Matthew O'Brien
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
I’m an author and journalist who has lived in Las Vegas since 1997. My first book, Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas, chronicles my adventures in the city’s underground flood channels. My second book, My Week at the Blue Angel: And Other Stories from the Storm Drains, Strip Clubs, and Trailer Parks of Las Vegas, is a creative-nonfiction collection set in off-the-beaten-path Vegas. These two books grew out of my eight years as a writer and editor for Las Vegas CityLife alternative-weekly paper.
I enrolled in UNLV’s MFA creative-writing program in the fall of …
Gerstler's Triumphant Return (1972), Julie Zuckerman
Gerstler's Triumphant Return (1972), Julie Zuckerman
Bryant Literary Review
Sitting among the malodorous teenagers--boys ripe with day-old sweat, girls thick on jasmine scents--Jeremiah Gerstler tried to check his mounting vexation.
Gift-Wrapped, Daniel M. Jaffe
Gift-Wrapped, Daniel M. Jaffe
Bryant Literary Review
Will there come a point during your El Al flight home from Israel when you can politely question the elderly man in the middle seat beside you as to why, during taxi yet before take-off, he ensconced himself toe-to-head within a 30-gallon, heavy-duty, clear plastic trash bag?
Phantom, Adam Matson
Phantom, Adam Matson
Bryant Literary Review
The pinky finger betrayed her. It sent a signal to Martin, who reached out from beneath the frilly cuff of his costume and grasped it.
Redwoods, John Joseph Hill
Redwoods, John Joseph Hill
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
To the outside world, Northern California might be trees, granola, hippies, rivers, snowboarders, environmentalists, farming, beaches, diverse wildlife, and wealth. Through a series of loosely interlocking fiction stories, this thesis explores the Northern California below the surface where people work as garbage collectors by day and attend community college by night, where teenage girls scam people in the park for free alcohol, where lovers spend their date night as part of a nude human-chain to protect an old growth redwood from being cut down, and where animal rights activists smoke cigarettes and seek love. Informed by personal experience and a …
Little Red, Danyelle Pullens
The Ebb And Flow Of Sir Jacques Depluntaine, Courtney Cox
The Ebb And Flow Of Sir Jacques Depluntaine, Courtney Cox
Arrow Rock
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There Is An Unformed World In The Sky Of My Heart, Nathanael T. Spanos
There Is An Unformed World In The Sky Of My Heart, Nathanael T. Spanos
Creative Writing Minor Portfolios
“There is an Unformed World in the Sky of My Heart” contains works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. All the pieces were written after my conversion to Christ in December 2012 and before my graduation from Cedarville University in May 2015. Though my spiritually-themed poems are the pulse of this portfolio, the title refers to the fantasy world of Sembercron, which I am discovering and creating through my writing. The title also refers to heaven growing in my heart, or Christ’s image supplanting my own, or God sanctifying me for his purposes. This portfolio observes, explores, and delights in this …
The Stella Stories, Francesca Phillippy
The Stella Stories, Francesca Phillippy
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The first three sections of a longer work.
16-Bit Ghouls: A Novella, Alyssa M. Bersine
16-Bit Ghouls: A Novella, Alyssa M. Bersine
All NMU Master's Theses
This novella follows twenty-something phone psychic and recluse, Jane, whose dead brother haunts her Super Nintendo. When he prompts Jane to find his killer, she must learn how to navigate a world where he is absent. Jane struggles not only with the ghost, but also with letting go of the nostalgia and anxiety that prevent her from moving on with her life. 16-Bit Ghouls is a story about grief and growing-up.
Lavender Bride, Robert Kostuck
Lavender Bride, Robert Kostuck
Bryant Literary Review
Svetlana and Valery at the late edge of a summer weekend, aligned vacations, rented bicycles, wool sweaters, damp air spilled inland from the half-empty beaches.
Ginger, Charles Butterfield
Ginger, Charles Butterfield
Bryant Literary Review
After Sam's truck clears the hill, all Lucius hears is the cooing of wild pigeons in the cavernous haymow.
The Strap, Ruth Latta
The Strap, Ruth Latta
Bryant Literary Review
"Carmen? Carmen Lawrence? Where are you, girl?"
I peeked through the planks of the porch stairs
Class Mate, John Kristofco
Class Mate, John Kristofco
Bryant Literary Review
"Hey, has anybody seen my Hawthorne?" Terrence Terrill poked his head into the small living room.