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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"original short stories"”.
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A Light Divided (Original short stories)
These short stories are about people in conflict; the characters venture toward personal growth, struggle to improve family relationships, and search for a relationship with God or the cosmos. In the title story a lonely man take actions which cause his increased isolation. His shattered hopes …
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Meet and Greet
A collection of original short stories.
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Inland North: Stories
A collection of original short stories.
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Southern Seasons: a Collection of Short Stories
The thesis is a collection of five original short stories by the author: "Heat," "Contrasts," "Walter's Wife," "Shade of Difference," and "Sisters." Also included is a brief critical introduction.
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Such Small Expressions of Forgiveness: a Collection of Short Stories
The thesis is a collection of four original short stories by the author: "Such Small Expressions of Forgiveness," "Signs of LIfe," "The Good Mother's Ghost Story," and "Purgatorio." Also included is a brief critical introduction.
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The things I left behind
This thesis consists of a preface and twenty-one original short stories. The preface examines the differences between creative nonfiction, autobiography, and memoir. The twenty-one interrelated stories included are autobiographical in nature, in some ways memoirs and in some ways creative …
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When shape becomes a sign: narrative design in creative nonfiction.
This thesis consists of a preface and three original short stories. The preface explores the idea that narrative designthe shape or structureof a story may become a literary motif in its own right. The three stories included are creative nonfiction and each employs a distinct modular design. The …
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Waving at Shepherds
… impetus to write. The project concludes with original short stories which are connected by a thread of character, of imagined setting, and conjured myth.
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Parts of Women
… a woman writer. The preface is followed by five original short stories. "Parts of Women" is a three-part story composed of three first-person monologues. "Controlled Burn" involves a woman anthropologist who discovers asbestos in her office. "Tango Lessons" is about a middle-aged woman who's …
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Divine and the Everyday Devil (Short Stories)
… and sexuality. The preface is followed by six original short stories. "Evil" is a work addressing a modern conception of evil. "Eschatology" concerns a man facing his own mortality. "The Gospel of Peter" tells the story of a husband grappling with his wife's religious beliefs. "The Mechanics of …
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If Only I Knew: The Stranger in the Twentieth-Century Short Story.
… stranger genre in the American twentieth-century short story by examining the short works of Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and David James Duncan. The second provides five original works of fiction that represent my …
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Low water: a collection of short fiction
… work and thereby develop a collection of short fiction representative of my abilities as a writer and my training as a writing student. A brief look into the use of point of view in a small selection of published short fiction introduces my collection of four original short stories.
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A Place to Be: The Relationship Between Setting and Character in Short Stories
… thesis addresses how setting and character in short stories can affect and reflect one another. Does place function as more than a location where plot occurs? How does it become a part of the characters themselves? Three short stories, “Babylon Revisited,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Clean, …
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A Hint of Meaning
… different aspects of the craft of writing. Six original short stories follow the preface. "Musical Chairs" explores a woman's conflicting emotions about her ex-husband. "Baby Steps" depicts the struggle of a woman against her father's alcoholism. "Go Home Happy" depicts a day in the life of a …
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Blackland Prairie
… 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 20th century. “The Place on Chenango …
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Thermals: a collection of short stories in an examination of women's experience stories
… examines the concept of women's experience stories as an emerging literary paradigm. It is asserted that experience stories are written out of the raw material of women's lives, that they attempt a re-writing of women's scripts, that they challenge literary conventions, that they involve a …
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Stay Brave My Hercules
… Brave My Hercules” is a collection of nine original short stories separated into two sections: “Stay Brave My Hercules” and “Matsuri”.</p> <p>In the first section, “Stay Brave My Hercules”, I explore the themes of hypermasculinity, loneliness, and insecurity, in particular the points in …
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More Hills to Climb
The dissertation is a collection of seven original short stories, each portraying a central character who struggles to climb a symbolic "hill" towards a new pleateau of self-awareness or maturity. The stories are realistic, peopled with individuals cast in familiar (and frequently complementary) …
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Messages In Bottles: Creative Writing, Distance Learning Pedagogy & Poetics
… One book-length collection of original poems written during the period 1990-1997. Circular Breathing was published by Dangaroo Press in September 1997 and received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.<br/><br/>2. One book-length collection of original short stories, Why I've …