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Late Night Infomercial I, Austin Watford

Westview

“My abs are rock hard! Rock hard for summer!” he says.

Green Arrow Vs. Hawkeye, John F. Buckley, Martin Ott

Westview

It was during the twentieth annual Secret

Speeding Through Kansas, Richard Luftig

Westview

These semis

Oh No, Guadalajara Won’T Do, Beth E. Goldner

Westview

My mother and I met Rhonda on the bus ride from San Diego to Mexico.

The Great Escape, Daniel Alexander

Westview

If there is a force in the universe the equal of gravity, it is the eternal draw of boys to mud.

Familiar Wounded Birds, Tracy S. Youngblom

Westview

Jesus Christ. I’m at my kitchen table perusing the paper Saturday morning when there is a tremendous crash.

The Red White And Blue Pony, Dennis Ross

Westview

always disappeared behind a barn

Flying Woman, Dennis Ross

Westview

The horses stand asleep in the pasture,

Riding To Devil’S Kitchen, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

I ride Moose today,

A Nice Boy, Austin Watford

Westview

Across the street lives a very nice boy with brown eyes like muddied brick and teeth like tiny fence posts.

Asylum, Lauro Palomba

Westview

The Hospital for Idiots and Imbeciles

Gazebo In The Park, Dennis Ross

Westview

Walnut shells are centered

Drought, Richard Luftig

Westview

Out in the back of farms,

Last Day, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

Gray hair and bald

Intolerancia En Tiempos De Crisis: Hacia Una Literatura Transgresora En El Sitio De Los Sitios De Juan Goytisolo, Oscar Ivan Useche

Modern Languages Faculty Publications

Este artículo propone entender la novela de Goytisolo como una respuesta cultural a la crisis de los modelos de racionalidad occidental. Se estudian las dinámicas de descomposición social de la globalización y la aparición dentro de este contexto de figuras marginales que buscan recuperar su capacidad transgresora mediante la reconquista del cuerpo y la apropiación del espacio urbano. Al trasladar al plano textual el memoricidio y la limpieza étnica como expresiones negativas de la modernidad, Goytisolo problematiza el papel del lector, del autor y de la novela como elementos esenciales en la representación literaria de la realidad.

This paper proposes …

My Only Protection (Creative Work), Morgan Lewis

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Fictionalized memoir: a young woman working as a lifeguard in adolescence muses on sunscreen as her only protection in a world that sexualizes her body.

The Language Of Love (Memoir Fiction), Sarah Justine Skriloff

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Fiction/memoir of a young woman's encounter with her mother over body weight issues.

Blazing Worlds, Bethany Kinney

Master's Theses

Blazing Worlds is a collection of short stories exploring themes of understanding, isolation, the world of work, and identity. These stories follow characters who are searching for connections to others, to their environments, to their work, and to themselves. The protagonists of these stories inhabit worlds that are slightly adjacent to reality, worlds cast into a near future, and worlds that operate by the logic of the campy and the fantastic. Through heightened technology, body horror, or blurred metaphysical boundaries, the residents of these blazing worlds pursue knowledge of their place in life and fight to establish and maintain their …

Things We Have In Common: Essays And Experiments, Willow Grosz

All NMU Master's Theses

Things We Have in Common is a collection of short stories, flash pieces, and image-text experiments that attempts, in the wake of the death of my mother, to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely generational poverty, a changing relationship with our Athabascan and Caucasian heritages, and the complicated ecology, geography, and culture of Alaska. Like many forays into memory, this project represents a joyous failure. Please read this collection as a love letter to Alaska.

When Mercy Seasons Justice, Basant K B

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This is based on the simple mathematical concept of ratio, which tends to get more intricate the more one thinks about it.

Sunshine ‘89, David O'Connor

English Language and Literature ETDs

Sunshine ’89 is a coming-of-age-novel, set in Canada in 1989, this creative work explores the travel of a young adoptee from a remote outpost to the bourgeois center of the country in order to pursue a life in the theatre. What ensues is a mentor-apprentice story exploring art, race, sexuality, performance, aging, dementia, alcoholism, politics, Canada, and other theme. Above all, a page- turner and picaresque romp meant to entertain and challenge.

Reflecting On And Shattering My White Lens: A Critical Autoethnography On My Experience As A White Editor Working With Authors Of Color, Kelsey Medlin

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This critical autoethnography aims to reveal how the cultural biases of a white majority industry impact the stories they select for acquisition and how they are edited. As an editor, I came to this topic from my personal desire to see if my own whiteness affects the way I view writers of color, their stories, and the audience that the companies market to. Thus, the purpose of this project is to explore the current conversations on the topic of diversity within the publishing industry and whether the conversation is making a connection between the lack of diversity in the workforce …

We Too Have Touched The Sky, Anthony Shoplik

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Destination: Ireland, Adriana Farian

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Louvre, Adriana Farian

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Monarch, Adriana Farian

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Nicaraguan Children, Wesley Olin

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Brother And Sister - Dominican Republic, Wesley Olin

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Giant Wheel, Gabrielle Rey

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Winter, Gabrielle Rey

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.