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Seed of the Serpent
(2022-12-21)
Seed of the Serpent is an epic fantasy novel set in a mythic stone-age past, wherein man must compete and contend with several species of intelligent beasts. The plot follows Reysen, a former warrior turned reclusive ...
A Lesson on Gravity: A Collection of First-Person Horror Short Stories
(2023-04-28)
This thesis is a collection of short stories told from the first person point of view. All the stories are horror themed, some comedic, some not. Each story presents a character wrestling with an internal conflict while ...
“What is this world?”: Confronting Conspicuously Literary Realms in Shirley Jackson’s Later Novels
(2023-01-10)
This thesis addresses the presence of noticeable literariness within the later novels of Shirley Jackson, including the carefully crafted and repetitive inclusion of intertextual and metafiction techniques. Within what I ...
How Environment and Natural Space Reflect Cultural Power Struggles in the Novels of Leslie Marmon Silko
This study investigates how Leslie Marmon Silko's treatment of the natural world in her three novels Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, and Gardens in the Dunes, represents both the differences among the novels' featured ...
The Lullaby Woman
(2023-01-09)
This thesis represents the beginning of my novel in progress, Lullaby Woman,
which is a creative piece of fantasy relying on the themes of mis-told histories as tools of
oppression, and tales and myths as tools of a culture’s ...
A Wolf at the Door
(2023-04-25)
Clare, an artist with empty pockets, was recently rejected from a gallery show. She had a lot riding on this submission emotionally, since the painting she submitted helped her process the attempted assault she faced at ...
American Vulgarities
(2023-01-24)
A powerful point may be made from a base or offensive utterance, but a pervading stigma, rooted in the royal courts of England, exists when members of a “lower class” conveys the same point in the language of the people. ...
Future Ruins: Stories
(2023-10-10)
Future Ruins is a collection of linked stories that explores the history of human colonization on the planet Ilova.
The first story, “The Firemade,” takes place in one of the earliest human settlements on the planet. It ...
I Heard the Ravens Call My Name
(2023-10-11)
Thirteen-year-old Lillian has a secret: she is reverse—she is a girl but everyone thinks she is a boy. Lillian is terrified that anyone who finds out will reject her. Then, the mountain witch arrives in town with her talking ...
Idyllwild
(2023-10-04)
My literary novel titled Idyllwild is set in the upscale Michigan suburb of Idyllwild during the 1990s. The protagonist Edith (Edie) Arthur counts the months until high school graduation. Since moving to Idyllwild eight ...