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Cruelties of Omission: Stories, 2024

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Identifier: cw_2024spring_stachura_anna.pdf

Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.

The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and changed to digital submissions in 2020. There are also a handful of audiocassette tapes and one USB. The media components are stored onsite at the Archives.

Dates

  • 2024

Creator

Conditions Governing Use

The thesis is restricted due to FERPA, permission from the author is required before you can view the thesis.

Extent

121 pages

Language of Materials

From the record group: English

From the record group: Chinese

From the record group: Spanish; Castilian

Overview

"CRUELTIES OF OMISSION is my attempt to grapple with questions of grief and time. In these five sometimes-speculative stories, characters inflict, wrestle with, and are products of pain. Adult siblings bring to life a simulacrum of their recently deceased father. A new technology offers fast, easy means to settle up with regret. A mother struggles to comprehend why her long-absent son won't come home to her. They're lost, they've lost, they're losing, they're losers—pushing back against a sad reality: time takes irrevocably. Things get misplaced. Apologies grow less potent, more complicated. Context shifts: people are not who they once were, defy memory and expectation. We forget, we reframe, we lament, and we omit what hurts too much. In this collection, I hope to contend with the frailty of memory in the arena of lack, and how it makes us into whatever we become." -- Abstract

Physical Location

RG 010.01B Writing, Literature & Publishing

Physical Description

121 pages

Repository Details

Part of the Emerson College Archives and Special Collections Repository

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