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Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

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“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson

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While the fantasy genre is one of the most widely read modes of writing, literary criticism and academic discussion of the genre takes place at a much lower level. This imbalance has developed in part because of a misconception that fantasy genre writings cannot accomplish significant, literary purposes. This thesis first offers an argument for why the fantasy genre should receive more attention in scholarly circles, then presents an excerpt of a fantasy novel. The argument draws from the limited amount of existing criticism to highlight the strengths of the fantasy genre, building a case that, in most respects, works …

The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

Bryant Literary Review

The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

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I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

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What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

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blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

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Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

Getting Married In Vegas, Natalia Cortes Chaffin

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Maggie woke up to the stop and start of a car outside her bedroom window.

Second Showing, Todd Balazic

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I do get to say

the clever thing I say

about Nietzsche and the pathos of distance

Bad Poet's Epitaph, Candice Rowe

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If I die on the Martha's Vineyard ferry,

Water the arbutus,

The Present, Fred Muratori

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It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

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"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

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I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Comparison/Contrast, Rustin Larson

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His elegy is good, but his elegy is not

Good. His whisper tends to shrink

Sacrament, Todd Possehl

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Wait again for me at the bookstore café

Chosin Reservoir, Robert Wallace

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SNOW

First the snow: lots of it. Heavy and wet and blinding to the naked eye on a sunny day.

What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

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I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

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It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo

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Questioning The Superstructure: A Marxist Critique Of The Rainbow And Women In Love, Diantha Acevedo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Verso

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Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

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Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

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An apple pie Americano -- attaboy! -- got the ax for being asleep

Still Life, Brian Arundel

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We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

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The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

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The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

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It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

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The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery