First Advisor

Charles McLeod

Date of Publication

Spring 6-9-2016

Document Type

Closed Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing

Department

English

Language

English

Subjects

Grief -- Fiction, Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction

DOI

10.15760/etd.3022

Physical Description

1 online resource (ii, 83 pages)

Abstract

The following is a collection of six short stories written between 2014 and 2016. While the short stories are not connected, they tend to grapple with issues of grief and belonging. Characters who struggle to name their feelings, to inhabit them, and yet feel them nonetheless, populate these pages.

There is also a theme of fantastical bodies in some of the stories--women who levitate and little boys who suffer heart problems when they feel too much joy. The interplay between emotion and physical ailment is exaggerated and dramatized in these instances.

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Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17747

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