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King, Willow. "Yantra: A creative writing thesis (Original writing, Poetry, Creative fiction)." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p1425764.

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Jayroe, Susannah Katherine. "Meat Shack and Other Creative Works." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3946.

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The works of creative writing which culminate in this thesis explore themes of everyday trauma, the gendered body as rendered in writing, and writing as propelled by the aural senses above factors such as logic and plot. Dysphoria of identity through gendered, geographical, and institutional means pervades each work in instances that range from the subtle to the all-consuming. Rhythm and intuition bond at the sentence level in each work, rendering a wildness to the pages. Moved by sensation rather than a drive to make something abundantly clear, the revelations of reading arrive at a level of

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Cilliers, Charles. "Harrow : a collection of fiction." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7966.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The subject matter of the two stories and one short novel in this dissertation, if one could call it that, vary widely. There are, however, overridig themes of fantasy and surrealism throughout, for each of the narratives ask of the reader to disengage from certain axioms of how the world works. The first story, The Other Ellis, deals with a character's struggle to come to terms with the possibiligy that he may be the only person hearing hidden messages in the music of a particular composer. He becomes convinced that the composer has a terrible secret. T

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Merlin, Bailey. "Sentinel." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2017. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/496.

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Devastated by the mysterious death of her guardians, Elizabeth Davenport finds herself thrust into a new world that proves to be scintillating and dangerous. Can she trust those who claim to be her friends? Or will her trust lead her into trouble? When a mysterious letter presents itself and proves that her guardians might have been more than they ever let on, Elizabeth must gather her courage and pursue the truth, whatever the cost.

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Dreshfield, Anne C. ""All are finally fictions": Fan Fiction as Creative Empowerment Through the Re-Writing of "Reality"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/237.

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This paper examines online fan fiction communities as spaces for identity formation, collaborative creativity, and fan empowerment. Drawing on case studies of a LiveJournal fan fiction community, fan-written essays, possible world theory, and postmodern theories of the hyperreal and simulacrum, this paper argues that writing fan fiction is a definitive, postmodern act that explores the mutable boundaries of reality and fiction. It concludes that fans are no longer passive consumers of popular media—rather, they are engaged, powerful participants in the creation of celebrity representation that

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Knez, Dora. ""The Release" : a creative writing thesis." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60609.

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The genre of fantasy contains texts which are unlike, or distance from, the real or empirical world--the world of the reader's experience. Nevertheless, fantasy texts can reveal truths which are relevant to the empirical world, and thus fantasy texts can be said to have cognitive value. The notion of possible worlds, the semiotic theory of metaphor, and a discussion of ambiguity are the three critical approaches used to investigate the cognitive value of fantasy texts. The stories in this collection provide a sampler of fantasy figures--such as mermaids, ghosts and living mummies--and make use

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Pledge-Amaral, Carolyn D. "Desert Palms." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2977.

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DESERT PALMS is a contemporary women’s novel set in an Arizona RV park. When Miamians Margie Campos and her husband, Carlos, unexpectantly inherit Desert Palms, a rundown retirement community, Margie reluctantly agrees to stay in Arizona to overhaul the park. With the discovery of a secret letter that threatens to unravel the family, an unscrupulous broker determined to buy the park on the cheap, and a husband bent on hitting it big, Margie digs in and starts to find purpose amidst a desert microcosm. Told from Margie’s perspective in a closely attached third person, DESERT PALMS is a realisti

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Budenz, Jacob. "Between the Phases of the Moon." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2540.

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This is a novel about a young boy on the cusp of puberty who discovers that his parents are part of a cult of witches. He runs away to escape both the implications of this discovery and, because of his prejudices toward magic, the power growing inside of him.

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Davis, Allegra. "Lining Up." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3683/.

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A creative, multi-genre collection that includes three personal essays (non-fiction) and two short stories (fiction). The pieces in this collection primarily focus on the themes of loneliness and waiting. It includes pieces dealing with homosexual relationships, friendships and heterosexual relationships. Collection includes the essays "The Line," "Why We Don't Talk about Christmas," and "Boys Who Kiss Back," and includes the short stories "I Am Allowed to Say Faggot" and "Dear Boy."

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Kaplan, Brett. "Existential Bebop." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3553.

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EXISTENTIAL BEBOP is a collection of thirteen short stories that use humor and satire to address some of the absurdities of human existence. In some stories, characters are forced to come to terms with mortality, such as the six-year-old boy in “A Goldfish Memory,” who learns about death for the first time. In “Cassandra Knows All” a rational twenty-something is lured by a charlatan who convinces her that there is an afterlife. In others, the comedy centers on human frailties, such as “Weekend in Deceit,” where two couples confront infidelity. “The Sacrifice of Mikey Horowitz” explores family

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Anderson, Joseph. "Visitations: A Novel." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1267.

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VISITATIONS, a novel, explores themes of haunting and desire in New York City, in two time periods. The modern-day action focuses on Alan Philips whose wife, Beth, has recently died. His efforts to resume a normal life are sabotaged by what he comes to believe is her ghost. In the parallel story, in 1924, Oliver Nathan Blackburn, a pulp writer, in the midst of a breakdown writes a story that may play a role in Beth’s death. VISITATIONS presents Alan and Oliver’s perspectives in third person narration, so that the reader is both close to and may question the subjectivity of their perceptions. T

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Bonhomme, Desmond. "Creative Writing Thesis: Poetry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/563.

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The title of this compilation of my own creative writings is Trees, Breathe, Paper. This unique collection of poetry, short stories and prose contains a range of work, composed from 2002-2012. The thematic goal of this undertaking is to ballast as many implicit and explicit meanings as are comprehensible, and to extrapolate a distinct spectrum of latent and straightforward explanations with discernible psycho-analytical accuracy. We all know poetry is truly formless and based on springs of natural inspiration. Thus, we derive our purest inspiration from the natural world and we prune it in its

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Jowell, Joanne. "On the other side of shame : a non-fiction account." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8094.

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Lynette Langman's telephone rang on a Sunday night in 2001, heralding the call that would unravel her life. For forty long years, she had waited to hear news about the son she gave up for adoption when she was virtually a child herself. His birth had remained a closely guarded secret, hidden even from those who knew her best. And now his disclosure would unleash years of bottled questions and confessions.

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Francis, James. "Short fiction creative writing: storytelling with a film perspective." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2427.

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The research and material contained in this thesis will examine short story theory from current perspectives in the field and provide a response to questions posed about the composition of short fiction. A critical introduction will take into account these theories and lead into a collection of five short stories written from a filmmaking perspective. The collection of work provided represents an attempt to break stereotype in the construction and formatting of what is considered standard short story material. Focus for the collection concerns sensory perception, elements of film (flashback se

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MARTINS, MARIA CRISTINA AMORIM PARGA. "MAKING AMERICA: EXILE AND CREATIVE POWER THROUGH FICTION WRITING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30681@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A pesquisa de mestrado intitulada Fazendo a América investiga, de forma teórica e ficcional, o potencial criativo que o exílio enquanto instância subjetiva - não apenas geográfica - desperta no indivíduo. A dissertação entretece discussão teórica à escrita de autoficção, com a apresentação de uma novela sobre uma família com quatro gerações de imigrantes e suas histórias. O formato ficcional permite pensar o exílio, sua potência e seus desdobramentos através da própria escrita

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Rohloff, Gregory W. "How We Live Today and Other Stories." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2638.

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How We Live Today is a collection of stories about family connections and the process of making amends to keep a family whole. The families are not just traditional families, but also arrangements constructed out of necessity, circumstance, or convenience. The title story tells how a man ends a lengthy divide with a stepmother for the sake of her, his son, and ultimately himself. We see adolescents do the right thing in their circumstances at the risk of losing peer standing or to avert future social damage. An older golfer encourages a younger golfer, easing guilt but realizing that respect f

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Hernandez, Edgar. "J4CK MERED34TH." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/369.

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ESCRIBO ERGO SUM is an analysis of my writing methods, and it seeks to understand the meaning and purpose behind my novel, J4CK MERED34TH. Through this explorative piece, I create parallels between my own life and my work in order to show a much closer history and context for the novel. In it, I ultimately conclude the importance of identity and its acceptance in my writing process. J4CK MERED34TH follows 19-year-old gamer and hacker Jack Meredith in a near distant future in which virtual reality has been achieved. After a small routine job, someone breaks Jack’s security and steals his identi

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Suarez, Gabriela P. "The Last Cold Winter." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3273.

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The Last Cold Winter is a historical novel that takes place in Romania at the end of the 1989 Communist Revolution. George Bird, a naturalized American citizen, returns with his thirty-year-old son, Adrian, to the country they had defected from twenty-eight-years earlier. George Bird is dying of lung cancer, and he wishes to see his parents and his country one last time. The trip quickly turns into a nightmare when he is kidnapped the first day back. Adrian, who doesn’t speak Romanian, must now meet the kidnapper’s demand for a list he knows nothing about in order to save his father. With the

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Powers, Rachel Chenven. "To Disappear." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3326.

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Kanter, Jaimie. "Fan Fiction Crossovers| Artifacts of a Reader." Thesis, Hofstra University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10286513.

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<p> Over twenty-five years ago, Henry Jenkins (1992) wrote that fan fiction writing is evidence of “exceptional reading” (p. 284) in that the fan text reflects a reader’s commentary. This investigation examined the ways in which crossover fan fiction, fan-written fiction that mixes elements of two or more well-known fictional worlds, might reveal evidence of this “exceptional reading.” Using a qualitative content analysis of 5 crossover texts that remix Rowling’s <i>Harry Potter</i> series and Austen’s <i>Pride and Prejudice,</i> the study focused on f

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Eckerd, John. "Collect Your Dead." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2017. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/488.

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Since the bizarre disappearance of his wife, mountaineer Abbot Boone's life has spiraled into a pit of alcoholism and alienation. But then a wealthy and desperate widow hires Boone for an impossible task: to recover her husband's dead body from the peaks of Mount Everest. With nothing to lose and debts mounting, Boone enlists a team of exiles and misfits to attempt the climb. But if Boone is to conquer the mountain, he will first have to survive the pressure cooker of Everest Base Camp, brutal subzero temperatures, and ultimately confront the mystery of his own grief

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Collins, Juleen. "Mandala Springs." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3654.

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ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS MANDALA SPRINGS by Juleen Collins Florida International University, 2018 Miami, Florida Professor Debra Dean, Major Professor MANDALA SPRINGS is the small town setting for a story that explores the nature of secrets, lies, revelations, and the damage each can cause. The narrative follows Bodhi MacLachlan, a young woman who struggles with Borderline Personality Disorder, back to the psychiatric hospital where she has resided in-patient multiple times. The long-term association with her psychiatrist becomes complicated when she reveals details of her affair with a secretiv

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White, Jennifer A. "Test patterns." [Chico, Calif. : California State University, Chico], 2009. http://csuchico-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/handle/10211.4/177.

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Bowers, Kim Silveira. "And then the letting go." Scholarly Commons, 1985. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/486.

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The novel And Then The Letting Go involves protagonists Samantha Evans' simultaneous discoveries of her husband Don's infidelity, her own unplanned pregnancy, and the pregnancy of her unmarried, best friend Regina. These pivotal events act as emotional catalysts, ejecting Sam out of the passive restraints of her unhappy marriage into a frightening, yet exhilarating, life of active participation. Within a nine month temporal framework, the novel explores a period of psychological gestation which results in the birth of her new Identity. Sam Evans passes from frozen passivity ("The nerves sit ce

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Whang, Ho-Kyung. "Missing Persons." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1769.

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Mikulencak, Carolyn B. "Here There Is No Place That Does Not See You." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1882.

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Engel, Patricia. "Fresh and hungry." FIU Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3143.

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FRESH AND HUNGRY is a collection of eight short stories about young women who must reconcile their divided cultural identities and the dynamics of their relationships with men, standards towards infidelity, sexuality, domestic abuse, intellectual and professional ambitions. The collection describes the evolution of feminine identity in the lives of eight women from the ages of fifteen to thirty, showing the circle of experience that forms a woman's sense of self and the way she perceives the world around her. The stories are linked by one year that each character spent living in the same board

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Doyle, Lauren A. "Florida Pure." FIU Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3236.

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FLORIDA PURE is a satiric novel set in the orange juice industry of contemporary Florida that begins when the deaths of four migrant workers lead to the demise of the orange juice company, Florida Pure. The novel follows three plot lines that result from this demise. The company's fallen president has to cope with the loss of the company as well as the more recent loss of his wife, who has left him for the governor of Florida. A former Florida Pure trucker purchases an orange grove to make juice "honestly." And three brothers from Brazil seek to destroy the orange crop as a way of boosting glo

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Ellenburg, James Mallon. "Chaos Hill." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3240.

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Chaos Hill is a collection of short stories that represents the duality and paradox of existence in the lives of characters searching for a better place. The stories display man's connection to the physical world and his attempts to free himself from its cycles. The action of each story occurs within twenty-four hours and is concentrated on small changes and motion as resolution. In Chaos Hill, the world spins gravity into oppression, day and night roll relentlessly on, and only when dreams of escape die is the battle won.

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Danmole, Azizat Omotola. "This Is Who You Are." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/214.

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A daughter is pressured to marry and must figure out how to reconcile her ideas of independence with her mother's expectations; a young girl, thrust into public school for the first time, discovers that the difference between right and wrong is not always defined by adults; a girl struggling with insecurity meets her perfect college roommate--each of the author's stories focuses on the experience of deciding where to fit in the world and how fitting in is defined by family, society and, ultimately, the self.

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Flannery, Brendan Conor. "Collected Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703359/.

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Armstrong, Patience. "Excerpts from After the Fire and Use Your Words." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4227.

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After the Fire is a novel exploring a mother and daughter as they are faced with shifts in socioeconomic status and cultures in 1970s Los Angeles. Haunted by the mysterious death of her sister and her father’s abandonment the daughter tries to fit herself into her changing world by giving up her own aspirations to seek replacements for what she lost. The mother is catapulted into financial survival as she uncovers the secrets of her missing husband’s past and comes to terms with the role she played in a life that was a lie. Use Your Words is a collection of linked creative non-fiction essays t

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Christensen, Wayne Egon. "Scorpion dance." FIU Digital Commons, 1996. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2353.

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This is a utopian novel,75,000 words in length, set in mid-twenty-first century Missouri. The plot follows the coming of age of an orphan, Del, during an environmental apocalypse. With the world in decay, Del is determined to control what he can in his life. However, the town in which he lives is starving and without medicine. The people are unable to move elsewhere under a law prohibiting migration. And Del is infatuated with his brother's lover, Rachel. Additionally, Del comes to discover that he changes into animal forms during his dreams, a legacy from his Indian father. It is not until

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Cappy, Kathleen L. "Decency." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2039.

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Decency is a collection of short fiction that examines how people struggle with the conflict between their compelling inner lives and cultural norms. The stories are concerned with dishonesty about self, sexuality and love and examine themes of true and false, honesty and disguise. The protagonists struggle to maintain a mask of normalcy, but in the cathartic process of shedding their facades, they subject themselves to painful risks, lose jobs, human connection and beloved illusions. They are male and female and range in age from sixteen to mid-fifties and include a honeymooner in Rome, a nai

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Colagrande, John Jr. "Headz, a novel." FIU Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2401.

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This novel reveals the counterculture as seen through the eyes of a group of coming-of-age, vulnerable, reckless, and often pretentious youths. In New York, Thelonious Horowitz is an up-and-coming musician who is uninspired and decides to trek to Chicago for the biggest musical festival of the summer. A diverse cast of characters, living in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, round out the novel, of which Thelonious is the connective tissue, ultimately bringing everyone together at the festival where paths converge for an event none will soon forget, and a concert a few will get to see. The no

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Cabrera, Remberto. "Love comes in at the eye." FIU Digital Commons, 1998. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1958.

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LOVE COMES IN AT THE EYE relates the story of Marshall Craig, a Midwesterner transplanted to South Florida who turns 35 in the course of the book. Marshall is an assistant curator for a Miami art museum, a man who has been obsessed with--as he calls it--a greed for seeing from a young age. His fascination with the surface of appearance of things is exacerbated by his precocious studies in art and its histories. Marshall views himself as marked by his red hair and freckled skin, as someone whose chances of attracting a partner into a meaningful relationship have been diminished by his looks. He

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Broussard, Tracey Ann. "Jump! How high?" FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1816.

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JUMP! HOW HIGH? is a memoir of a journey to a black belt in Karate, one that explores the duality inherent in being a nurturing yet powerful woman. The book moves between personal growth and an exploration of karate training, questioning both the means by which martial arts training promotes growth and the dichotomy of what it means to be a good girl/bad girl. The karate style in which the author trains embraces the Samurai virtues of honor, justice, loyalty, wisdom, compassion and bravery. This is juxtaposed by the virtues of the Southern woman, compliance, hospitality, and warmth, with which

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Creeden, Michael. "Broken heroes." FIU Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2666.

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BROKEN HEROES is a mystery novel set in the modem day Southern California rock music scene. The protagonist is Declan St. James, 35, an alcoholic ex-musician and frustrated music journalist who, with friend and former bandmate, Stevie Richards, investigates the mysterious death of mentor Art Schulman. The search ultimately leads them to PowerTrash, a cult favorite band which, years earlier, suffered a mysterious death of its own. The novel is told in Declan's first-person voice looking back on these events. Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, the book uses the study of artists and their work to conn

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Bonasia, Lynn Kiele. "Washashores." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1717.

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Washashores was a comic novel exploring the secrets and relationships in a fictional Massachusetts seaside town. Rose Waters, who'd come to Nauset after a failed relationship, encountered two women with a tangled and duplicitous history, and a young autistic savant the women had helped to raise. The boy's uncle, Simon Beadle, once the town drunk, had run away from his past for seventeen years until an event occurred which initiated his journey home. Rose and Simon's paths converged, bringing about complications both whimsical and serious, with events reaching a crisis at the town's Tri-centenn

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DeMarchi, Thomas. "Itch." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2769.

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ITCH is a collection of short fiction that explores the ways people give and receive love. The love explored is not limited merely to romance; the deep bond of friendship, the strained relationships between family members, and the quest for mending broken connections are also explored. The stories' protagonists are male, range in age from seven to mid-forties, and hail from different backgrounds: there is a fireman, a biologist/medical student, an adjunct English professor, a computer programmer, a drug addict, an attorney, a prepubescent thief. Simple and straightforward, the plots predominan

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Cochran, Joan Lipinsky. "Tootsie's regret and other stories." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2393.

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Tootsie's Regret and Other Stories is a collection of fifteen interlinked short stories that explore the relationship between Tootsie Plotnik, an aging Jewish gangster turned- legitimate businessman, and his daughter, Deborah, a middle-aged, recently divorced writer who learns of her father's unsavory past. The stories show how Deborah's divorce colors her perception of her father, while her growing intimacy with the older man forces her to reexamine her assumptions about his past and one's ability to know another human being. The stories' style was influenced by The Yiddish Policeman's Union,

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Borrebach, Peter Andew. "Gravel music." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1736.

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Gravel Music is a collection of poems, encompassing a wide range of styles from free verse to sonnets, including several unique forms, using rhyme where it was deemed pertinent, but also operating in a deconstructive mode where prosody is concerned. The book is divided into three sections. Poems in the first section strive toward political and critical utterance, addressing Marxism, Darwinism, neo-pragmatism, and humanism in a sequence of interrogations of the barriers between aesthetics, politics, critical theory, and philosophy, hoping to find traces of truth, fact, and authenticity that tra

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Bentley-Baker, Dan. "Double Fortune." FIU Digital Commons, 1996. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1609.

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Double Fortune is a novel relating events taking place in Miami, Central America, and The Bahama Bank in October and November, 1983. The main character, Michael Hayden, is a free-lance music producer who has become jaded and impotent. A chance encounter on the Bay with Marisol, a Salvadoran heiress, and Hector, her brother, propels him into a complex plot to expatriate money through U.S. government channels. Willy, a brooding Cuban bodyguard hired to protect and instruct the Salvadorans, emerges as both nemesis and key to the duplicities of the scheme. The final showdown involves the four of t

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Clifford, Joe. "The Lone Palm." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2389.

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THE LONE PALM is a noir novel set in a timeless Bay Area city. At nineteen, Colin Spector is a hot-shot crooner at the Lone Palm, a nightclub owned by the Christos' crime family, headed by Cephalus "the Old Man" Christos and his ne'er-do-well son, Gabriel. When Colin falls for Gabriel's girl, a stripper named Zoe, Gabriel orders the singer's vocal cords cut and has him framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seven years in prison, Colin is manipulated into working for his former tormenter. Gabriel is now estranged from his father, who has branched into the world of politics. Working as mob

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Bond, John A. "Reconcilable differences, a dark comedy." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1731.

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Reconcilable Differences is the story of Miami radio host Adam Painter. Confused about relationships, Adam cancels his wedding and, under the guidance of his bad-boy best friend, delves into the demi-monde inhabited by strippers and hookers. On the air he begins to examine how men and women interact. Adam explores the night world, moving from a connection with its denizens through his talk show to direct experience of its license and loneliness. He fails miserably in his clumsy efforts with women and is fired, sued and arrested. An unlikely, unwilling rebel, Adam confronts change and stumbles

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Childrey, John Albert. "Howardsville Depot and other stories." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2332.

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The collection of stories recreates an impression of a lost time and place. In "Howardsville Depot," the stories are set in rural Virginia and span the years from 1929 to 1969. While kernel situations are based in identifiable events, the stories explore the subtle dreams and aspirations of characters in the community which has the railroad depot as it hub. In "Head-on Collisions," protagonists find themselves in inevitable situations provoked by their own limitations. The only choices are forced and evolutionary with no clear solutions.

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Busby, Robert. "The Dead Fish at Twenty Mile and Other Stories from Bodock, Mississippi." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1870.

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THE DEAD FISH AT TWENTY MILE AND OTHER STORIES FROM BODOCK, MISSISSIPPI is set in a mythical town of nine-hundred-and-forty-eight Bodockians on the northwest corner of fictitious Claygardner County. Much like the canon of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha works, the stories in this collection contribute to the myth of Bodock-from the fictional town's origins sometime in the 1830s, to the turn of the twenty-first century-while exploring such themes as mortality, regret, folklore, the New South at the end of the twentieth-century, and the relationship between man and nature. With the exception of the tit

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Toye, Geoffrey. "Mind, motive and authorship : reflections on the nature of creativity and the character-driven narrative with particular reference to the author's works : the novel, 'Diminished Responsibility', & the anthology of short stories, 'The Reluctant Nude'." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683092.

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Fennick, Ruth McLennan Fortune Ron. "The creative processes of prose-fiction writers what they suggest for teaching composition /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9203044.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University,<br>Title from title page screen, viewed December 19, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune (chair), Janice Neuleib, Ray Lewis White, Elizabeth McMahan, Russell Rutter. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 441-479) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Jones, Kasey. "Pathologized Peculiarities: A Collection of Short Stories." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/273.

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This thesis is comprised of three short stories that explore the pathologization of perceived social abnormalities and the isolation that often follows. "The Firmament" focuses on ostracization due to social difference, while "Shards" and "A Box of Rocks" focus on a specific 'abnormality'—schizoid personality disorder and high-functioning autism, respectively. These stories are not exact representations of a specific disorder, but my interpretation of the materials that I encountered during my research.

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