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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Short stories -- Fiction"”.
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Lining Up
… 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 …
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Liars Like Him
This is a collection of short stories, which fall somewhere between the realist and absurdist genres of fiction. Most of them take place in or around Ohio. Birds and humans often appear side by side.
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Liars Like Him
This is a collection of short stories, which fall somewhere between the realist and absurdist genres of fiction. Most of them take place in or around Ohio. Birds and humans often appear side by side.
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[Blip] and Other Noises
… and Other Noises </em>is a collection of short stories that explores the illusory nature of identity, time, space, and our experience of reality. Its principal characters include a sea captain, an Elvis fanatic, a space alien, and some very confused children. Its principal settings include …
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If You Insist on Being Injured, I Will Be the One to Injure You
The stories in this collection exist somewhere between the formalist and the fabulist. I use writing to explore topics that interest me such as beauty, movies, reality, and mothers. I hope these stories are ingrained with unexpected surprises and humor. There are elements of absurdism in my …
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A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind
… dissertation is a collection of creative and non-fiction work, including a novel with critical introduction, four short stories, and three essays. The novel is a modern day Grail quest that takes place primarily in the Southwestern United States. The short stories are mostly set in the southwest …
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Blackland Prairie
… of place as a narrative agent in contemporary fiction. The preface is followed by six original short stories. “Parts” depicts the growth of a boy's power over his family. “A Movie House to Make Us All Rich” involves the sacrifice of familial values by the son of Italian immigrants in the early …
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Friday is a Planet: Stories
Friday is a Planet: Stories is a collection of short fiction that explores the ways loss can alter family bonds. Characters in these stories have lost daughters, sisters, mothers, and friends. Some characters go to extreme lengths to return to their loved ones—one woman hallucinates, another time …
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Simple, Ugly Things
This collection of stories explores themes of race, class, gender, and alienation through a variety of settings in which the characters experience some form of displacement and are forced to find a voice within an unfamiliar vernacular. At the heart of writing, and language itself, is that desire …