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Pretirement
(2023-04-20)
This thesis includes the first seven chapters of an original creative work, a humorous romance novel titled Pretirement. The novel’s protagonist, Drew, is a thirty-year-old Massachusetts transplant in Los Angeles. ...
The 13 Bookson Architecture, Love and Villainy, by Cletus
(2023-01-10)
Juxtaposing text and illustration can induce a state of subtle confusion in the
reader and “defamiliarize” select elements of literary craft—in the case of this thesis, the
authorial mask in a work of historiographic ...
The Time Trials
(2023-01-23)
A young optimistic girl competes for her Time Traveler’s License only to discover that time travel isn’t real and that she’s been unintentionally destroying parallel universes instead. It’s a story about acceptance and ...
Journey Key
(2022-12-21)
Nora Burroughs, the protagonist of this novel, Journey Key, finds herself embroiled in a centuries-old curse—a curse that, if not broken, would put other women, including her daughter, in mortal danger. The hitch is that ...
The Grosvenor Romance: A Novel (Chapters I-VII)
(2023-04-25)
The story takes place in a coastal Massachusetts town, Grosvenor, in the autumn and winter of 1850. The protagonist is 18-year-old Margaret Browne, a young lady beginning to experience the first stirrings of a need for ...
The Truth-Teller Told a Lie
(2022-12-22)
The Truth-Teller Told a Lie is Darrin Reed Abplanalp-Cowan’s first memoir, telling
the story of one of America’s first out-LGBTQ+ television anchors before the days of
marriage equality or workplace and housing protections ...
The Fire of a Purpose
(2023-05-05)
What comes to mind when you think of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan Macy? Popular conception of the deafblind Keller and Sullivan, who was her teacher, interpreter, and friend, often ends at the same point where most of ...
Love, love, snub. The Beatles, Manila, and Imelda.
(2022-11-21)
The Beatles went to Manila at 4:30pm on Sunday July 3, 1966. The next day they played two concerts to a total of 80,000 people - the largest one-day audience in their entire touring career. But the visit is remembered ...
We Did It Together
(2022-12-07)
Set in mid-twentieth century Jonesborough, Tennessee, We Did It Together is a
two-act play based on true-life stories of people who helped shape this small
Appalachian town during a tumultuous era of change. These ...
All We Bury
(2022-12-22)
My novel in-progress, All We Bury, begins with Naomi and Olivia, two young women struggling to find belonging in the insular, fictional town of Fort Hanlon, Montana. Despite her fiancé’s serial and public infidelity, Naomi ...