Gentille Alouette, Short Fiction, and Selections: A Draft: Chapters of a Novel in Progress

<p>The plot of my novel in progress, Gentille Alouette, follows a sixteen-year-old female poltergeist named Alouette Tansy as she navigates her complicated relationship with her mother, Rhododendron “Rho” Tansy. Alouette is a violent entity, born out of her mother’s long simmering and manifested angry after Rho witnesses a catastrophic event as a child. Separated from her mother and raised by her grandmother, Elzina “Nona” Tansy, Alouette must come to grips with her otherworldly physicality and strange abilities all while trying to comprehend her own existence and sense of humanity. The short story, Rusalka Rusalka, follows a young girl named Remmie who is suspended from her high school after assaulting another student. She finds herself on work detail in the Great Dismal Swamp aiding Rusalka, the mysterious wife of a renowned marine biologist. Rusalka’s instability and affinity for exotic fish prove much more treacherous that Remmie could have ever imagined.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Mack, Stephanie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tom De Haven

• poltergeist
• mother
• daughter
• Great Dismal Swamp
• Arts and Humanities
• Creative Writing

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/604

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1603