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Good Things Bad People, Zachary M. Alley

Arrow Rock

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Arrow Rock, 2014-2015, Full Issue

Arrow Rock

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The Politics Of Salutations, Bret Lundstrom

Arrow Rock

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Azalea, Kimberly Renee Driggers

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This collection of poems, with its focus on home and absence, is named for the azalea, the thinking of home bush.

The Sorcerer, William Carlisle Goehring

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems from 2011-2015.

Prescribed Fire, Moira J. Mcavoy

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

As the culmination of my nonfiction seminar (ENGL 470C) with Professor Colin Rafferty, I chose to explore three disparate, but interwoven, narratives: the death of and delayed grief over my high school mentor; my struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; and, the 2011 wildfire that destroyed much of the Great Dismal Swamp. Through a use of segmentation, lyric language, and a manipulation of tense, I explore the tensions underlying these narratives, namely the idea of futility of preparation and the insistence on destructive cycles which sustain themselves. Ultimately, the essay serves on a rumination not on mortality, but on our cultural …

Aberration, Virginia Leslie Clark

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This portfolio contains an author's note and three creative pieces: the first is a work of poetry, the second is a work of fiction, and the third, a work of nonfiction. Together, these pieces examine the intersections of culture, religion, and gender. They survey the function of the narrative frame, and raise questions in regards to story-telling and re-telling. The poem, entitled "Asclepias syriaca," explores identity, spirituality and self-infliction. The historical fiction piece, "In the Telling," provides a re-investigation of the execution of Misha'al bint al Fahd al Saud, a Saudi princess condemned, allegedly, on the basis of adultery. The …

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 …

Comedown, Lacey Daley

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

These stories examine the private spaces we keep within ourselves, and the people we claim to know best. The characters are not connected by place or time, but rather their struggles to learn the same lesson: the body is bound to fail us. “Comedown” explores love and loss beyond what is expected and each story ends with the discovery that these emotions are not always visceral.

Young, Black, And Gifted, Kevin Son

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Oblivious, Sarah Steil

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Neon Tiger, Taylor Lea Hicks

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Bluegill // Our Disillusion In Three Acts, Savanah Skinner

Gandy Dancer Archives

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American Pastoral With Warped Floorboards, Dante Di Stefano

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Tap Shoe Memento Mori, Rachel Beneway

Gandy Dancer Archives

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A Drop Left, Oliver Diaz

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Lip Prints: Fuse My Genes With Fish Scales, Christina Mortellaro

Gandy Dancer Archives

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[Unspecified Endocrine Disorder], Codie Hazen

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Adirondacks, Devon Poniatowski

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Past The Edge Of The Forest, Emily M. Suess

All NMU Master's Theses

This fictional work traces the superstitions around No Name Forest as members of the town just beyond the forest begin to disappear. While set in present day, the piece draws on the way fairy tales use the inexplicable and strange to engage readers in questioning the human experience. The story details the disappearances of several people from the town of Little Haven. While each of these disappearances are presented in individual tales, they are linked together through the voice of a girl who has been tracking the disappearances. In search of the father who abandoned her, Gwynn Halpert is interested …

Moving On, Joyce S. Brown

Bryant Literary Review

Twenty minutes into death
and whatever happens there,

Seashells Never Say Much Anyway, Joshua R. Mora Pagkalinawan

Bryant Literary Review

Envelope me in your existence
until the mailman gets tired

Former Things Are Passed Away, Rebecca Melnyk

Bryant Literary Review

I.

On Saturdays, Daddy likes to take the Coupe Deville through the

center of town,

Elvis At The Dunkin Donuts, Gregg Moglia

Bryant Literary Review

Coffee at hand I sit alone and begin
To read some Walt Whitman

Modern Peasantry, Mark Smith

Bryant Literary Review

Are you not yet cognizant,
my people, of how your television

Lost At Sea, Dylan Thomas

Bryant Literary Review

One dark day
my love was washed away

Hoo Doo Interests, Allison Whittenberg

Bryant Literary Review

MaMa Fontaine stirs gumbo in a big rusty pot
telling me that joy is squashing a pregnant roach

A Fried Egg, Ellen Cooney

Bryant Literary Review

a fried egg
a small sun

A Scarlet Tanager Alights On A Branch, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

The stopping, admiring,
is all on my side.

Class Mate, John Kristofco

Bryant Literary Review

"Hey, has anybody seen my Hawthorne?" Terrence Terrill poked his head into the small living room.