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Seven Taverns To The Schoolhouse, Ellen Six Jan 2020

Seven Taverns To The Schoolhouse, Ellen Six

The Tuxedo Archives

The day that I was born my parents looked at me and said, “You will go to college,” a noble ambition to fulfill when you are only two hours old. To both of my parents, who had emigrated from Lithuania, education was the magic key that would free me from the life that they had to live.

Mother had received only three years of schooling. She was third daughter in a family that would have twelve children; six would live and six would die. She learned to read and write but that was enough for a girl who was needed …


One Page Sentence, Kevin Coates Jan 2020

One Page Sentence, Kevin Coates

The Tuxedo Archives

I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, and by easy I mean a piece of cake, a cake walk, even though the one time I had actually tried to make a cake from scratch, it was not all that easy – in fact, it was one of the hardest things I did during my four years in college – making an orange sponge cake that baked into a hideous color, a color like the left over snack bags in the dollar aisle at Wal-Mart after Halloween, when all of the candy is fake fruit shapes and all of the …


Old Woman, Erina Lynch Jan 2020

Old Woman, Erina Lynch

The Tuxedo Archives

She sits across from me in all her purpleness. Same table, same drinks on the table. Each and every day the same. Three drinks each day at 11:45A.M. – one venti caramel frappucino, one venti mocha with whip and one grande iced coffee. She isstrange. The drinks, ordered together, sit on the table slowly being sucked dry as the old woman holds court at her two-seater, window, table for hours. She is strange, arriving at the local McDonald’s version of a coffeehouse referred to as Starbucks on her purple beach cruiser bicycle that is seriously tricked out in some sort …


Digressing, Kylie Walsh Jan 2020

Digressing, Kylie Walsh

The Tuxedo Archives

James sat up when Death knocked on the door. He was there to collect James the way children collect laughter. James opened the door; he was not very bright with things like this.

When he was younger his sister smashed a vase over his head after his provokings grew into gaping creatures. After numerous X-rays and MRIs the doctors told them all, “We looked at his head, there’s nothing there.”

Much amusement among the brothers and sisters at this. He could do Calculus problems in his head and tell you about wars that your great-great-great-grandparents fought in when they lived …


Dandelion, Jane Muir Greene Jan 2020

Dandelion, Jane Muir Greene

The Tuxedo Archives

The old man was hunched over his walker on the garden path, having a tug of war with the wheels of his walker and the pea gravel that barely delineated the pathways in the overgrown, weed strewn expanse of planting beds that hinted of a former hey-day. He was a short man whose middle had increased with every decade, now giving him an egg shaped profile, a ridiculous outline for such a dignified person, dressed in a three-piece suit with a white carnation in his button-hole, a uniform he had worn every day since he first started at the law …


Things My Father Taught Me, Casey Waits Jan 2020

Things My Father Taught Me, Casey Waits

The Tuxedo Archives

They say every man grows up to be his father. I’m pretty sure they say the same thing about women too. They also say how life is all about the little things. The devil is in the details and what have you; body language, facial expressions, clothing, ticks, mannerisms, habits, speech patterns, sayings, tones, opinions, and patterns. These are what make up a person. These are what make up me. I learned them from my dad.


Futile Attempts, Melissa Graveson Jan 2020

Futile Attempts, Melissa Graveson

The Tuxedo Archives

I don’t know why I remember waking up one morning, and getting ready to go to the mall when I was five years old. The morning started just as so many others had. I crawled out of my bed, reluctant to leave the warmth, and comfort, it provided. Soon after I made it over to the dresser, where I found an outfit to wear. The shirt and pants I put on were indicative of a child’s wardrobe. These items were not unique, or original, by any means. Having put on traditional children’s clothes I then moved onto adorning myself with …


8 Weeks, Aiyana Beck Jan 2020

8 Weeks, Aiyana Beck

The Tuxedo Archives

I get to his office tired. My prefect dark ringlet curls dripping wet from the rain. I start to his office not paying attention to the fact that his secretary is trying to stop me.

“Miss Brown,” his secretary is saying, “he is on a conference call right now. If you wait I can let him know you are here.”

“I don’t have time to wait David.”

“Miss Brown,” he shouts at me, but I am already at the door to Joe’s office.

As I walk in, I swallow hard.

“So we are going to build this building in stages,” …


What Happens, Ona Gritz Jan 2020

What Happens, Ona Gritz

CutBank

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The Hidden People, K. C. Mead-Brewer Jan 2020

The Hidden People, K. C. Mead-Brewer

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Johnny, Be Good, Maureen Traverse Jan 2020

Johnny, Be Good, Maureen Traverse

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Mountains I'Ll Never Reach, Gregory Ariail Jan 2020

Mountains I'Ll Never Reach, Gregory Ariail

CutBank

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In The Lake, Before Dark, J. A. Bernstein Jan 2020

In The Lake, Before Dark, J. A. Bernstein

CutBank

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Childe Roland And I To The Library Came, Kristine Langley Mahler Jan 2020

Childe Roland And I To The Library Came, Kristine Langley Mahler

CutBank

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Welcome To The Hotel Sabra, Robert Rebein Jan 2020

Welcome To The Hotel Sabra, Robert Rebein

CutBank

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Feminist Book Club, Dani Blackman Oct 2019

Feminist Book Club, Dani Blackman

CutBank

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A Natural History, Brooke Sahni Oct 2019

A Natural History, Brooke Sahni

CutBank

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The Lizard That Lived Forever, Sara Ryan Oct 2019

The Lizard That Lived Forever, Sara Ryan

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Origin Story, Jennifer Jordan Schaller Oct 2019

Origin Story, Jennifer Jordan Schaller

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Tony The Shadow Man, Stephen D. Gutierrez Oct 2019

Tony The Shadow Man, Stephen D. Gutierrez

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Tilt, Heather Heckman-Mckenna Oct 2019

Tilt, Heather Heckman-Mckenna

CutBank

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Shining, Jessica Martini Oct 2019

Shining, Jessica Martini

CutBank

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Concussion, Ruth Joffre Oct 2019

Concussion, Ruth Joffre

CutBank

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Rapture, Eliza Smith Oct 2019

Rapture, Eliza Smith

CutBank

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Giza, Trevor J. Houser Oct 2019

Giza, Trevor J. Houser

CutBank

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Text By Mus, Mustafa Abubaker Oct 2019

Text By Mus, Mustafa Abubaker

Graduate Scholarly Works

This is why I have created a Twitter bot to generate interactive thread-based creative writing in the form of short stories called Text By Mus as my interactive media project in the graduate level course Web Content Development: Writing for Interactive Media PRWR 6850 instructed by Dr. Sergio Figueiredo. The account features “choose your own adventure” stories written in the literary fiction style. I would like to use the Twitter bot to combat the mass-market production of what is called literature in lieu of digital fiction being just as good as classical, all-time great fiction. This project presents a software …


Looking At Shadows: Four French Texts In English Translation, Kalena M. Hermes Jun 2019

Looking At Shadows: Four French Texts In English Translation, Kalena M. Hermes

World Languages and Cultures

This project present four French texts in English translation that share the theme of loss. This theme is perhaps one of the most poignant and relevant; loss is an experience that every human will encounter, and as people we continue across time to grapple with what it means for us and how to deal with it. These four texts will bring the perspectives of four authors to light in English. When we study how other countries and cultures deal with common human issues, we are able to gain new views on these issues. This project will make these texts accessible …


Giiwe, Skyler Kuczaboski May 2019

Giiwe, Skyler Kuczaboski

I2

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Satori 2019, Winona State University May 2019

Satori 2019, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.


The Battle For Crystal Hill, Parker Spadt Apr 2019

The Battle For Crystal Hill, Parker Spadt

The Oval

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