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On The Corner Of North And Nowhere. A Novel ‐ And ‐ Going Back To Go Forward: An Invitation To Get Lost. A Critical Essay, Ali Marie Jarvey

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis comprises a young adult (YA) novel called On the Corner of North and Nowhere and an exegesis entitled ‘Going Back to Go Forward: An Invitation to Get Lost’.

On the Corner of North and Nowhere follows 18‐year‐old Nev Isles, who lives and works at Cleary’s, her grandmother’s art retreat in the Perth Hills. She dwells happily in an old cottage by herself, until her mother decides that she wants to move there too. Rather than live with her again, Nev runs away with her friend, Cole, set for the WA roads she travelled as a child and …

The Devil Tides, Jennifer Martelli

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Study Of Disbelief, John Mccarthy

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Pentimento, Sandy Coomer

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Hellbent On Heaven, Sarah Kahn

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

A collection of stories that follows a family contending with their daughter’s mental

illness and substance abuse.

Wellspring, Alicia Bones

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Heroic Texts And Special Effects, Joshua D. Goss

Masters Theses

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Neon Calico, Joshua Webb Garrett

Masters Theses

This is a work of creative fiction in the genre of cyberpunk that explores themes of loss, sexuality, and trans-humanism though the eyes of a young Asian-American woman who struggles to cope with the loss of her former boyfriend, with an emerging sexual attraction to a friend of the same sex, and with feelings of disconnectedness complicated by a loss of humanity brought on by her continually improving her own physical body through cybernetic implants and augmentation. Inspired by such works as William Gibson's Neuromancer and Shirow Masamune's The Ghost in the Shell, this book explores the struggle that …

December 12th, 2014, Jared Sebastian

The Laureate

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I Ache In Portugese, Cristal Cardoso Sao Mateus

The Laureate

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Gravity, June Rose

The Laureate

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In The Café Down The Road, Bradley Miller

The Laureate

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Message Status, David Shrauger

Bryant Literary Review

Sam awoke with a smile, just like he did every day.

He brushed his teeth with a smile,

Omaha Beach, Jon Malchiodi

Bryant Literary Review

My only friend Bill sits beside me.

He smells like booze and is burning,

Fly With Me, Meagan Pessolano

Bryant Literary Review

I drink to our love tonight

Cheers to all the lovers across the seas

Father's 86th Birthday, Douglas K. Currier

Bryant Literary Review

He wonders why he should go another year.

He can barely walk; he can't grip with his hands

Trap, Susan Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

A loud snap, a mouse half-trapped

one leg caught, one free, still leaping

Library Of The Lost, Howard R. Wolf

Bryant Literary Review

He had spent years paying attention to his elders, and now he was one.

Elegy For Galway Kinnell, David O'Connell

Bryant Literary Review

November, the first snowfall, a confectionary sugar,

is turning now to sleet, the evening's tempo quickening

Funky Fresh, Ryan Girard

Bryant Literary Review

Warm lights flash

Scuffs of roller skates litter the dance floor

You Could Die Laughing (For Sarah Purnell And Especially For Anne), Don Fisher

Bryant Literary Review

I told a co-worker about a mutual friend dying.

She thumbed away one tear.

Nothing, Nathan Rivas

Bryant Literary Review

It's all I have to offer.

Not a penny for the man

shaking his cup,

John, Paul, George And Me, Brian Daldorph

Bryant Literary Review

I was the Beatles' first drummer,

played the first gig at The Cavern

Laundry, Will Walker

Bryant Literary Review

It's what separates us from the beasts.

Plato did not say I only wear

the idea of laundry;

This Man's Life, Brian Daldorph

Bryant Literary Review

If only for a short time

a man has all that he wants:

Escape, Dolores Redfearn

Bryant Literary Review

Mambo sounds provoke the silence, waking the sleepwalkers in the street below.

A Fifth Of Old Crow, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Feathers black as an undertaker's wingtips,

he struts resplendent with a monocle and a walking stick

Laundromat, Sheila Golburgh Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

Out of the washer

endlessly swirling,

damp and wrinkled

and knotted from harsh

The Man Who Will Perform My Colonoscopy, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

As I slouch in the shower, drained by fear

and laxatives, does he look forward to a day

With Birds Flying Below Her, Patricia O'Donnell

Bryant Literary Review

Where Muriel wants to be is sitting on a terrace, one on a mountain with a view of the ocean.