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Naam, Amna Haider Dec 2025

Naam, Amna Haider

Graduate Thesis Collection

This thesis is a collection of short stories that blends realism, speculative fiction, and South Asian folklore to examine how identity is negotiated through belief, culture, and survival across borders. The stories center characters who must continually interpret the worlds they inhabit in order to sustain self identity. Names in this collection function as sites of power and vulnerability: they are inherited, altered and concealed, shaping how characters are seen and how they see themselves. Alongside names, the supernatural and myth emerges not only as metaphors, but as lived forces, drawing from Islamic folklore and mythic traditions to articulate experiences …


Cue The Meet Cute, Sarah B. Cocks May 2025

Cue The Meet Cute, Sarah B. Cocks

Graduate Thesis Collection

Margery has always loved three things: romantic comedies, predictability, and the legacy of her family's video rental store. But when her beloved, yet struggling, small-town movie rental shop is threatened by her parents' impending divorce, her carefully curated life starts to unravel. Determined not to let her dream job fade into nostalgia, she launches a summer-long community dating event to save it. There’s just one problem: she’s never been on a date before.

To her dismay, her coworker-slash-cinema-nemesis, Henry, considers himself a dating expert—and he’s all too eager to lend a hand.

Layered with pivotal early-2000s cinematic references, sharp banter, …


From Far Gone, Back, Courtney Renae Causey May 2023

From Far Gone, Back, Courtney Renae Causey

Graduate Thesis Collection

From Far Gone, Back is a short story collection that explores multigenerational families living in and around the changing landscape of Atlanta, GA. It asks what comes of the decisions we are forced to make for those around us and ourselves while surviving the best way we know how.


The Jubilant City Almanac: Stories, Azaria Brown May 2023

The Jubilant City Almanac: Stories, Azaria Brown

Graduate Thesis Collection

The Jubilant City Almanac is a collection of short stories set in the magical Jubilant City, a city founded by a group of Black women in 1736. These stories bridge the whimsical and magical with the realities of poverty, classicism, addiction, abuse and health disparities. “Got His Alligator” follows the journey of two codependent addicts as they try to get their fashion designs onto Jubilant City’s premiere drama, Girl, Please. The characters in “Carbon Copy” use a magical phone to bring Denzel Washington to the city. “Jeremiah the Conqueror” summons Black American folk legend, High John. THrough an exploration of …


Strange Beginnings, Lincoln-Abdullah Hasan El-Amin May 2023

Strange Beginnings, Lincoln-Abdullah Hasan El-Amin

Graduate Thesis Collection

"Strange Beginnings" is a short story collection consisting of four short stories. Some of these stories go together and some stand alone. All of them aim to evoke something in the reader, whether it be shock, joy, unsettledness, or something more.


The Prism, Darrah Melita Ellis May 2023

The Prism, Darrah Melita Ellis

Graduate Thesis Collection

"The Prism" is a magical-girl-themed fantasy light novel series about four best friends who finally graduated junior high school. Miya, Teresa, Liana, and Destiny are anxious to start their new high school lives (for better or worse) in their rough, monotone, and corrupt urban town of Quaint Village. Their plans are interrupted, however, by the opening of a brand new private school. Then, for the first time ever, all four girls end up in the same program. They're ready to make great memories together and spend much more time with each other.

Unbeknownst to them, their new school is nothing …


New Members, James F. Mcgrath Jan 2023

New Members, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Flying In Our Sleep, John Strauss Dec 2022

Flying In Our Sleep, John Strauss

Graduate Thesis Collection

Flying In Our Sleep is a one-hour radio / podcast production of a story in which “Teens wake to discover they’re drafted into an army of killer robot drones and must outwit their deadly AI overlords in a desperate bid to escape.” This partly ironic summary sets the tone for an adventure story for Young Adult audiences with thoughtful elements around the meaning of consciousness, personality, and friendship. The project also includes a paper, “The Art of the Fiction Podcast,” that explains how the show was produced, and argues that digital media has a place in literary writing programs to …


Sumi-E? Haiku? Why Not Both!, Sara Anne Hook Jul 2022

Sumi-E? Haiku? Why Not Both!, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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Beautiful Botanicals: Traditions, Methods, And Materials, Sara Anne Hook Jul 2022

Beautiful Botanicals: Traditions, Methods, And Materials, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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The Vicissitudes, Lara Young May 2022

The Vicissitudes, Lara Young

Graduate Thesis Collection

On the surface, Julia's life at middle age seems calm and settled. Her children are grown; she's got plenty of friends and family; and her marriage has survived a betrayal. But when she unexpectedly receives a text from an old flame, one by one the certitudes she's come to rely on start to unravel and Julia's is forced to reckon anew with the meaning of her life and her place in the world.


Botanical Illustration In The Fourteen Century: Annotated Bibliography, Sara Anne Hook Apr 2022

Botanical Illustration In The Fourteen Century: Annotated Bibliography, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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Two Birds (An Ekphratic Poem) – For Deanna, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Two Birds (An Ekphratic Poem) – For Deanna, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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The City Becomes Her: Poetry Collection, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

The City Becomes Her: Poetry Collection, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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America, The Pinnacle, Micah Horne Sep 2021

America, The Pinnacle, Micah Horne

Manuscripts

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Garden Of Secrets, Angelina Butters Sep 2021

Garden Of Secrets, Angelina Butters

Manuscripts

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Ascension, David Chadburn Sep 2021

Ascension, David Chadburn

Manuscripts

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From The Shower Floor, Angelina Butters Sep 2021

From The Shower Floor, Angelina Butters

Manuscripts

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Fool’S Gold, David Chadburn Sep 2021

Fool’S Gold, David Chadburn

Manuscripts

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Sigh, Carly Duncan Sep 2021

Sigh, Carly Duncan

Manuscripts

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Wish, Elie Heile Sep 2021

Wish, Elie Heile

Manuscripts

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Message In A Muse, Alexis Bloom Sep 2021

Message In A Muse, Alexis Bloom

Manuscripts

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So Says The Busboy, Macy Kent Sep 2021

So Says The Busboy, Macy Kent

Manuscripts

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Radiance, Miriam Berne Sep 2021

Radiance, Miriam Berne

Manuscripts

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Leapfrog, Elie Heile Sep 2021

Leapfrog, Elie Heile

Manuscripts

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Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff Sep 2021

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

Manuscripts

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Sweat, Cigs And A Ball Of Noise, Tyler Jacob Hughes May 2021

Sweat, Cigs And A Ball Of Noise, Tyler Jacob Hughes

Graduate Thesis Collection

Corduroy Jones is contacted by a local promoter to reunite his band Streetwise Preacher. Over a three week span, Corduroy and his bandmates Tony and Johnny go through a series of events leading up to their Halloween Night reunion show.


Sometimes I Think I’M Going Crazy, Connor Kesslering May 2021

Sometimes I Think I’M Going Crazy, Connor Kesslering

Graduate Thesis Collection

"Sometimes I Think I’m Going Crazy" is a short story collection containing three stories of more or less equal length. Each of three main characters face conflict that tests their resolve and ultimately forces them to reevaluate who they are as human beings. Stress helps people to grow and evolve and the protagonists in these stories are forced to face their greatest fears head on and (with varying degrees of success) come out the other end better for it. But not before going a little crazy in the process.


72 Orchids, Lilly Hinckley Oct 2020

72 Orchids, Lilly Hinckley

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Underground Lipstick, Garrett Davis Oct 2020

Underground Lipstick, Garrett Davis

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.