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What We Say When We Mean Goodbye

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

There are nine stories in this collection, with characters ranging from a Kraken to Amelia Earhart to Texas sisters to college boys to a larger than life woman to a thrill killer to a girl who poses nude for an art class and on. These characters are all, in one way or another, in limbo, this place between happiness and unhappiness. Some of them are fighting so hard to get out, and some of them don't really know that this is where they are, who they are yet. But all of these characters are there on this separate plane from everyone else, and none of them are articulate enough to explain to someone else how to get where they are so that they can be rescued.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing
Department dc:contributor.department
English
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2014

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Schrauth, Jennifer Diane
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Vollmer, Matthew
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Falco, Edward C.
  • Mann, Jeffrey A.

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:2906
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/64402

Chain of custody

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Schrauth, Jennifer Diane. What We Say When We Mean Goodbye. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64402