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Robots, Joseph Scott (J.S.) Kierland Jan 2011

Robots, Joseph Scott (J.S.) Kierland

Bryant Literary Review

The Major drove north along 95 into the oncoming darkness. The sun hung low over the desert behind him,

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Poison Pie, Jeannie Galeazzi Jan 2011

Poison Pie, Jeannie Galeazzi

Bryant Literary Review

What I'd done wasn't exactly a crime. The "Help Wanted" sign I'd spotted just this morning was gone,

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Hoodoo, T. M. (Michael) Bemis Jan 2011

Hoodoo, T. M. (Michael) Bemis

Bryant Literary Review

I grew up in a small town about fifty miles north of New York City called Briarwood.

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The Passenger Seat, Madeline Wise Jan 2011

The Passenger Seat, Madeline Wise

Bryant Literary Review

Rudy called his ex-wife from a dealership in San Francisco and blurted out, "I've got it, Mimi, and it's all mine!

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Fly In The Air, Judy Klass Jan 2011

Fly In The Air, Judy Klass

Bryant Literary Review

...strafes the dinner party guests but does not land, cuts through the invisible gases jagged,

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Pulse, Nathan Alling Long Jan 2011

Pulse, Nathan Alling Long

Bryant Literary Review

Dad stopped the car on the hill above school and put it in park.

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Easter Eggs, Vanessa Blakeslee Jan 2011

Easter Eggs, Vanessa Blakeslee

Bryant Literary Review

Julie wished the problem of the Easter eggs wouldn't turn into a blowout fight,

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The Telephone Pole, Jay Baruch Jan 2011

The Telephone Pole, Jay Baruch

Bryant Literary Review

Everyone leaves--the medics, the police, the coroner, the late night news crew

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The Lemon Tree, Emily Swaine Jan 2011

The Lemon Tree, Emily Swaine

Bryant Literary Review

I was walking back to camp with some new supplies when I noticed all the boys standing around,

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And Then It Clicked, Tanya Marie Robertson Jan 2011

And Then It Clicked, Tanya Marie Robertson

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

And Then It Clicked is a crime fiction novel about an African-American female detective from Louisville, Kentucky who accepts a case centered on the issue of domestic violence. It tells the story of an abused woman murdered in her home. Her husband, initially suspected of the crime, has an air-tight alibi and the family asks Adrienne, the detective, to find out who killed her and why. Adrienne has had past experiences with domestic violence and the new case causes her trauma to resurface.

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The Cut Of A Suit, Shea Taylor Jan 2011

The Cut Of A Suit, Shea Taylor

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

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Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness Oct 2010

Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available

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Out Cold, Fred G. Leebron Jul 2010

Out Cold, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

Walter had just completed his five-mile route on the treadmill and was headed from the gym to his car in a nearby parking lot - he was in fact circumnavigating a field on which a few idiotic teenagers were kicking a soccer ball at a field hockey goal, so as not to approach near their game - when he was struck in the side and back of his head by something large and forceful and solid and round, and it sent his glasses flying from his face and his bright white tennis cap skittering from his head and it flattened …

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Drink Me, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog, James Arthur Goldberg Jun 2010

Drink Me, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog, James Arthur Goldberg

Theses and Dissertations

Language itself is a technology, and the advent of each major technology of language transmission (from the alphabet to the printing press to the Internet) has changed the range of speaker-audience dynamics which are the starting point for all creative writing. In this thesis, a writer, armed only with his blog archives and a smattering of John Tenniel illustrations, guides the curious reader through various issues raised by creative writing in the blog form. Topics discussed include self-presentation, the juxtaposed brevity and expansiveness of online texts, nonlinear reading, alternative models for revision, the literary possibilities of the hyperlink, speaker-audience-time relationships …

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Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley Jun 2010

Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley

English

The concept behind this year's theme, "Bold," actually came from concepts our art director, Melissa, showed us during our first meeting. We had tossed around ideas of "Timeless," "Enduring," and "Vintage," amidst our discussions of how in the world we were going to raise money for the journal this year. With the economy tanking, we knew art programs like ours would be the first to suffer. We wanted to find a theme that captured how we felt about art and how art made us feel. We kept coming back to the same idea: We have to just be bold and …

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Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo May 2010

Meddlesome Markets And Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses In Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir May 2010

Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Through Grace Alone by Lynne Adair Moir.

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Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones May 2010

Pretty Ballerina, Kerry Jones

Bryant Literary Review

It's just one of those things that sometimes happens to me: I'll find myself walking by a playground, or I'll be walking through the mall, and I'll see a little girl about eleven or so, and that's when my mind takes on a life of its own.

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Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis May 2010

Tierra Blanca, Andrea Lewis

Bryant Literary Review

I had what I wanted. I was alone with Charles.

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Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen May 2010

Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History: Plato, King Of Syracuse, Phong Nguyen

Bryant Literary Review

When Dionysus II first offered to Plato the city of Syracuse, jewel of Sicily, for the philosopher to rule as his own, there was a moment of hesitation

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Without Breath, Michelle Soucy May 2010

Without Breath, Michelle Soucy

Bryant Literary Review

I'm eight years old and my parents make me sleep in my sick younger brother's bed with him in case he stops breathing again

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Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier May 2010

Doing The Math, Martin Cloutier

Bryant Literary Review

James was experiencing a breach -- a psychic breach. Like his real self was coming into contact with a parallel universe self.

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The Aloha State, Adam Berlin May 2010

The Aloha State, Adam Berlin

Bryant Literary Review

It wasn't our honeymoon but it was Hawaii. It had been all sky and water for thousands of miles, blue above, blue below.

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Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven May 2010

Light, Extra Sugar, No Patsy, Nancy Lee Craven

Bryant Literary Review

"1992: A slice of life when dollars to donuts sometimes bought more than an even dozen"

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To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner May 2010

To Be So Dead He Sure Is Big, Phillip Gardner

Bryant Literary Review

Donnie Swank said, "He sure was big."

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In An Instant, Renee Cotten Mar 2010

In An Instant, Renee Cotten

Honors College Theses

I will never forget my junior year of high school; not because of the parties, the dances, or the school trips. That year does not stay with me because of the people I met, but rather because of the people I lost. The month before the school year began, I lost my father to a sudden and unexpected heart attack. I entered the school year already dealing with feelings of grief, but those feelings were only intensified as the year progressed. Five students died that year, three from my graduating class. Nights that my best friend and I should have …

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What You Can See From The Top, Alicia Bones Jan 2010

What You Can See From The Top, Alicia Bones

Lawrence University Honors Projects

A series of interrelated vignettes about a family of circus people and a sixteen-year-old girl who becomes involved with them in strange ways.

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Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers Jan 2010

Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers

Publications and Research

This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des questions (1963-1973), which addresses not only the Holocaust, but also questions of exile and identity. Others are on a smaller scale, such as Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir (1986), Julio Cortázar's Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1983), and Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de …

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A Catalogue Of Everything In The World: Nebraska Stories, Yelizaveta P. Renfro Jan 2010

A Catalogue Of Everything In The World: Nebraska Stories, Yelizaveta P. Renfro

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A Catalogue of Everything in the World: Nebraska Stories is a collection of linked short stories, all set in Nebraska, that explore the ways in which the forces of geography—being from or choosing to live in a particular place—affect identity and influence the course of lives. They feature a wide range of characters, from a bus driver mourning the death of his infant daughter to an octogenarian former doctor preparing for her death, from a young girl trying to cope with her parents' divorce to a woman whose obsession with a decades-old crime has literally taken over her life. Just …

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Strangers And Intimates: A Collection Of Short Stories, Kathy Marie West Nov 2009

Strangers And Intimates: A Collection Of Short Stories, Kathy Marie West

Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis includes five short stories that explore paradoxical ways in which people can feel alone, even if they are together. Although a combination of isolation and intimacy can occur in any human relationship, the stories in this collection spend much of their time with family circles in particular, considering the way that our closest, most permanent relationships can simultaneously prove the most intimate and the most isolating. The critical introduction that precedes the collection examines each story individually, discussing strategies and subject matter in terms of the collection's guiding concept. The introduction discusses the binary of intimacy and …

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