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Creative Project: Choices We Made in the Past Ten Years
(2023-04-03)
This collection of four creative nonfiction short stories and essays focuses on a common theme: making choices. Two of the stories are based on my personal experiences, and the other two are based on my friends’ experiences. ...
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. ...
WHERE ARE HER REAL PARENTS? Race, Adoption, and Lies in the 1970s
(2023-04-28)
When I was a baby, I was adopted by a 54-year-old white widow who lived on the coast of Maine. She insisted that I, too, was white and had the birth certificate to prove it. But the boys at the bus stop called me “nigger,” ...
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 ...
#It'sAWonderfulLife
(2023-04-28)
In the year 2045, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, high school senior Lainey Ann Wood is facing dark days. Her mom is sick, she’s not on speaking terms with her best friend, her ex is being a tool and climate change is irreversible ...
Snow on the Desert Sand
(2023-04-25)
This thesis is an excerpt of my novel in progress, “Snow on the Desert Sand.” It is
a biographical historical fiction novel about Josie Bassett Morris. Josie is mostly
remembered for her relationship with the outlaw, Butch ...
In the Realm of Santa Muerte
(2023-01-09)
In the Realm of Santa Muerte is a magical-realist horror novella. Written in a modern gothic style, it is inspired by regional mythologies and folklore of Mexico and the American Southwest.
This story follows Alma, a young ...
French Kiss
(2023-01-10)
French Kiss is a love story told in memoir form. When the American author
realizes in her 40s that her life is reduced to an estranged, alcoholic husband, a
questionable job, and the wrong commitments, she does the only ...
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 ...