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Canary In The Dark, Andrea Fekete

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

I began researching Appalachian culture in 1998. I wanted to tell a story about conflict and beauty while revealing my vision of who my people were/are. I strived to create a fiction not unlike poetry with realistic and minimalist features to give Appalachia the most accurate face possible as perceived by me through my own lens.

I wanted to explore the idea of beauty: Virginia’s (the main character) ideas about her beauty, her culture and other cultures. What is beauty? Who defines it? Can it be found everywhere? How? What does it look like when it is somewhere you wouldn’t …

A Place Between Heaven And Hell, Holley Barker

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

After twenty-some years of marriage, routine, and living life without feeling, time finally catches up to Effie Crunkleton, giving her the opportunity to confront a haunting past (her hell) which thwarts peace of mind (her heaven). As inner and outer voices lure Effie to a nearby cemetery (actually found at Twin Falls State Park), she exposes herself to a lifetime of suppressed memories and emotions that have taken place in the fictional Appalachian town of Coal Hollow.

Capers Island, A Novel, Jennifer J. Cavender

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Capers Island is a creative thesis about a woman named Delaney who has been having problems sleepwalking ever since her grandparents passed away. She decides to spend the summer on Capers Island, visiting an old college friend. While there, she visits a hypnotist to uncover repressed memories from her childhood. She begins the novel alone in West Virginia, and in the end, winds up on Capers Island in a tightly knit community. The novel contains elements of magical realism, the supernatural, and the psychological.

Nexus, Winter 2005, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

A Little Slice Of The Moon: Stories, Fatima Rashid

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Little Slice of the Moon: stories is a collection of short stories that explore the struggles of various characters to find their place in the world. And the world, despite its familiarity, can be a hostile place. The characters in this collection learn that families are a fragile lot, that every desire contains a paradox, that the Road of Life can seemingly be grasped by the horns, but that the future twists and turns, yet never escapes the past. And it is the past that haunts these characters' lives. One word, one act, impacts a lifetime. In A Little …

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 12 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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Lari, Patrick Salland

The Messenger

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The Messenger, 2005

The Messenger

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Announcement, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

Careful, world.

Attention. Vorsicht.

It is dangerous to lean

American Men, Matt Zambitto

Bryant Literary Review

can carry the yoke

of a tune

from PA to CA and back,

A Dangerous World, Chris Henry

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I went to visit Victor Shanks' parents because nobody else would.

Long Term Touching, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

When I held his hand

for the first time,

it was thinner,

In The Village Of Mourning, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Outside the Purulhá market, where the bus had left her, Olivia stared at the mountains to the north of town.

Dead Professor, Dan Dabrowski

Bryant Literary Review

Came knocking,

but I take it you're not around.

Ripped From The Tree, Tom Hansen

Bryant Literary Review

(beginning with two lines by Anonymous)

There is no easy way

into another world.

Intertextuality And Ideology: Jane Austen's 'Pride And Prejudice' And James Fordyce's 'Sermons To Young Women', Laura Vorachek

English Faculty Publications

In Jane Austen’s Art of Memory and other works, Jocelyn Harris has demonstrated the importance of Austen’s literary contexts for understanding and appreciating Austen’s art. One context for understanding Pride and Prejudice is the conduct book it mentions by name, James Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women. Mr. Collins chooses it to read aloud to the Bennet girls, and when Lydia interrupts him, he responds: “I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit.” I would argue that reading Pride and Prejudice next to Fordyce’s Sermons reveals that …

Dramaturgy, Philip Dacey

Bryant Literary Review

It was my idea to stage

a classic romantic scene

Editor's Note

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Mathematician's Love Poem, Matt Zambitto

Bryant Literary Review

I can't subtract the angle at which your two

irides let go of no frequency but blue.

Fat Broad, Darren Defrain

Bryant Literary Review

Ten minutes twice a day is barely enough time to get to the nub of a cigarette,

Cave Bull, Dan Stryk

Bryant Literary Review

My wife's quick

drawing thrills the children

at our youngster's

Teacher's Names, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

For what more-than-mortal sin is the soul squeezed

inside the body of a grub,

Focal And Idey, Ruth Abat Cooper

Bryant Literary Review

Idey Ponder whistled softly to himself as he shuffled his lanky body along behind the hounds.

Greatness, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

It came easy, then--winning big at Chinese

checkers--finding, behind a slab

Editor's Note

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Newport Ferry, Nancy Sullivan

Bryant Literary Review

Getting on was serpentine and narrow

Like pushing a wheelbarrow.

All Things Starting, One, Robert Parham

Bryant Literary Review

When the radiance of the ripple

turns its back to catch the sun

Lying Awake With The Windows Open, Mairéad Byrne

Bryant Literary Review

After you left I heard car doors closing

across the river in Lafayette.

The Station Nightclub, Don Kunz

Bryant Literary Review

How can they not still dream of fire?

Everything has turned black:

The Doctor Arrives, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

The doctor enters the room

and the mood is no less gloomier.