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- Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
- McCarthy, Cormac; Dante; The Road; Inferno; hell; apocalypse; sin; dystopia; speculative fiction
- Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Dante's the Inferno contain textual and thematic comparisons. While the Inferno creates a world that exhibits the worst fears of the medieval Catholic subconscious of Dante's time, The Road paints a world of the...
- 2010-08-05
- Design
- Marching band; Acolyte; Fiction
- A work of fiction in which, much to the dismay of her band director father, a 13 year old girl is fired from her acolyting position.
- 2005-05-20;
- Hitchhiking Through the Fire
- English, Creative Writing, Fiction, Zombies, Post-Apocalyptic, Western
- Ten years after the outbreak of an aggressive, fast-acting virus that kills then reanimates those infected, the world has become a bleak, hostile place. Water and food are scarce, valuable commodities, and survivors cluster together for safety in...
- 2011-05-20
- Shifting Understandings of Imperialism: A Collision of Cultures in Starship Troopers and Ender’s Game
- Militarism in science fiction, the Vietnam War, cultural studies, Starship Troopers, Ender’s Game, representations of the Cold War in science fiction
- In this paper, I consider how Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959) and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game (1985) allegorically treat U.S. Cold War fears of invasion by the Soviet Union. Given the texts’ historical relationship to the...
- 2011-05-20
- So, We Go
- Fiction
- A collection of eight short stories, which focus on themes of loss and longing, finding and acceptance.
- 2005-05-20;
- The House that Jack Built
- Caribbean; Fiction; Bartenders; Independence
- The House That Jack Built is a contemporary novel, set on the mythical Caribbean island of St. Anne, that explores enduring themes of American literature such as independence, selfdetermination, and the effects of greed on the independent spirit.
- 2005-05-20;
- As Runs the Deer
- New Romantic Fiction; American Fiction; Mytho-Poei
- These eleven chapters comprise Part One of a novel of thirty-seven chapters, entitled As Runs the Deer. It is a dialectic play on the processes of Time, as well as a play with evolving dialects. Nominally set in the 19th c., in an Appalachian-like...
- 2003-08-07;
- Absolute Midget
- Attorney; Lawyer; Lancaster; Philadelphia; Recovery; Novel; Fiction
- Fiction Novel
- 2006-05-22;
- La Rue House
- At-risk Homeless Teens; Social Work; Fiction
- La Rue House is a collection of short fictional stories set in and around a homeless shelter for adolescents.
- 2006-05-22;
- Hate Date
- fiction
- This is a story about a man who revenge dates women for hire because he thinks women are only out to hurt men. Bryce has something of an allergic reaction anytime he tries to talk to a woman unless it is under a completely false pretense, in which...
- 2006-12-15;
- Red, Right, Returning
- fiction
- 2003-08-07;
- Cheat River
- fiction, siblings, women, gay, West Virginia, Philadelphia, mural, ACT UP, Gulf War, Appalachia.
- Cheat River is a novel about balancing family obligations against self-preservation. That is what’s at stake for Allison and Andrew McKenna, a pair of siblings in rural Appalachia who must endure their father’s abandonment and their pregnant...
- 2007-05-18;
- Invitation of Echoes: Part One
- fiction, invitation, ghosts, echoes, shadows, reflections, August LeVey, Grey Lands, winter, blizzard, stranded, Indianapolis, crows
- Four strangers are stranded in an old farmhouse by a winter storm. Gilley lives on the farm. Shadows move of their own volition on the farm, and Gilley talks to echoes and sees the dead reflected in mirrors. Gilley’s husband, Frank, disappeared...
- 2008-05-16;
- Evolution of a Smart Girl
- Barbie, Brothers, Creative Writing, Evolution, Fiction, Games, MFA, New Orleans, Ovarian Cancer, Sexuality, Sisters
- Evolution of a Smart Girl is a collection of short stories that chronicles the evolution of the modern American female. The stories are arranged in three parts: “Dirty Barbie & Breakable Boys” focuses on adolescent relationships between boys...
- 2008-05-16;