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The Emrys School of Art, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_wong_jennifer.pdf
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"As a senior at Morgan University, Grace Huang often feels more comfortable with the paintings than with her classmates. When she sneaks into a party thrown by the distinguished Emrys School of Art, she finds a grisly tableau: a portrait that screams while its subject is bleeding to death. When Grace is invited to join the Emrys School of Art, she can’t refuse. She finds a place to belong with fellow students and artists. As Grace digs into the Emrys School, she uncovers the secrets of magic...
Dates:
2023
The Eternal Light & the Everlasting Dark, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_mcdaniel_jacob.pdf
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"This novel is an exerpt of a longer body of work that I intend to publish, covering "Part One" of the work. This novel is a work of fiction in the high fantasy genre, intending to act as a homage to old style of fantasy and the tropes found within, embracing the old cliches for a new audience. As such, the work showcases the traditional hero's journey with tropes such as a young farmboy turned hero, a magic sword, a dark overlord, and an epic journey filled with a myriad of locations. This...
Dates:
2024
The First of Them, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_snow_jennifer.pdf
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"The First of Them is a horror-themed science-fantasy fiction novel centered around a trans woman and her estranged twin brother. After strange happenings bring them back together, Collette and her brother Ethan must find out what connections lie between a psychologically deteriorating hospital patient and a missing USGS researcher as they deal with their own personal traumas, sibling rivalry, uncommon seismic events, and apparent paranormal unknowns. In the end, ties that bond them together...
Dates:
2023
The Fond Hearts, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_hollander_talia.pdf
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"THE FOND HEARTS is inspired by the true story of Roxana Druse, an abused farmer's wife in upstate New York, who killed her husband in 1884 with the help of her nephew, Frank Gates, and her daughter, Mary Druse. As Roxana tries her best to provide for the family alone and protect the children from the repercussions of the murder, Frank struggles with his feelings for Roxana and his frustration with her efforts, ultimately turning himself and the family in." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
The Fountain of Youth (A Novel), 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zolfonoon_wesline.pdf
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"The year is 2078 and Mozaik Hayes has just begun his position at REbirth, a company devoted to individual beauty as well as the growth of family through the use of birthing pods. Mozaik is the first of second-tier citizen to ever work at such a prestigious company, and he is the first to ever uncover something so terribly earth-shattering with in it. Mozaik must now decide if he should reveal his discovery to the people he trusts the most or keep what he has seen to himself and pretend...
Dates:
2019
The Fox Merchant, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_benz_allison.pdf
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"This fantasy novel centers around Sionnach, a cursed fox god of trade, and Maia, a deaf mage snatched from her homeland as a child. After ten years of servitude, Maia secretly learns magic and escapes onboard Sionnach's wagon. He soon discovers that her deafness makes her immune to his manipulative powers. The two set off on their journey, suspicious of one another and unable to communicate. But when Sionnach saves Maia's life, their relationship changes. Maia demands that Sionnach take her...
Dates:
2020
The Fruit You'll Never See, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_nastasia_gail.pdf
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"'The Fruit You'll Never See' is the story of how I—a girl who grew up with a heroin-addicted mother, an aunt who knew men that paid for sex with young girls, and around people for whom crime was the most familiar way of life—moved on to become a criminal defense lawyer. After years of being caught between the two worlds of who I was and who I wanted to be, I came to understand that I belong fully to both." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
The Fury of Creation, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_malpino_james.pdf
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"What if creation itself was furious at its own existence? The Fury of Creation is a novel in progress that seeks to address this intriguing question, framed through a dark medieval fantasy tale of war, betrayal, trauma, and redemption. Three distinct characters maneuver their way through the unforgiving world of Hymn, each of them trying to find meaning in their lives while dealing with the ghosts of their pasts. And just out of sight, from the shadowed corners of the world, sinister forces...
Dates:
2024
The Gates of Horn, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_laughlin_sophia.pdf
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"The Gates of Horn is an Adult Fantasy novel complete at 128,000 words. Death has smothered the Lucan Empire. While Sisenna, daughter of the emperor, mourns the death of her youngest brother, Sisenna's power-hungry uncle sends assassins to kill her parents—and very nearly Sisenna herself. Ousted from her seat of power, Sisenna is tossed into the streets with nothing but her loyal bodyguard and her own wits to protect her. Thirsting for vengeance, she sneaks out of Luca and across the...
Dates:
2023
The Generation of Isolation: Using Applied Theatre Techniques to Explore Social Emotional Impact of College Aged Students Living Through A Pandemic, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_delgenio_meaghan.pdf
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"Since the worldwide shutdown of in-person learning in March of 2020, students have been finding it difficult to navigate their way back to "normal life". As a 2020 college graduate myself, I have been witness to the social emotional detriment caused by isolation. For my Thesis Project, I facilitated a five week workshop with eight college students- four undergraduate students and four graduate students. In this workshop, using an Applied Theatre lens, together we explored the potential...
Dates:
2022
The Getaway, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_rosselli_natalie.pdf
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"The night of her father’s funeral, Josie Parker finds her father's old journal, gets drunk on the floor of what used to be his painting studio, and books a trip to France. On her first night, she meets the British expat who’s as gorgeous as he is mysterious. After thinking he gave her a disconnected number, they meet by chance in a café and begin their doomed flirtation. Josie climbs up to the monastery in the mountains and tries to call her mom, only to end up experiencing her first real...
Dates:
2023
The Ghosts We Eat, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_prusko_gabrielle.pdf
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"The Ghosts We Eat is an original collection of short fiction that takes place within a world just like ours alongside all too familiar monsters and magic living among us. Filled with brutal beauty and sprinkled with dry unflinching humor, this particular compilation explores hauntings that take on various shapes. From cannibals to aliens to young women redefining their constructed places within sex and intimacy, Prusko uses her stories to investigate how we face trauma head on whether it be...
Dates:
2024
The Great Big Infinity, 2020
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Identifier: vma_2020spring_pipp_jennifer_lee.pdf
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"The Great Big Infinity is an exploration of the ceremonial potential of media. The central concept is inspired by a fusing of ceremonial processes including the despacho ceremony, a layered healing bundle, archetypal mesa work, and fire ceremonies. The Ceremonial livestreams create a visual language where time is echoed and expanded. In this way it looks the way ceremonies can feel where time is looped and expanded. The advantages of online ceremonies are that people can join from multiple...
Dates:
2020
The Great Gatsby; An Original Adaptation, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_roncone_dena.pdf
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"'The Great Gatsby,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's colorful and dramatic novel has a storyline that naturally lends itself to the stage. Theatre artists have long been attracted to dramatizing this hundred-year-old book. 'The Great Gatsby' became public domain on January 1st, 2021. After reading published adaptations of "Gatsby," They did not fully honor the true beauty of the work - Fitzgerald's vivid imagery and use of metaphor. I have created a new one-act dramatic adaptation of 'The Great...
Dates:
2021
The Great Saving, 2022
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Identifier: cw_2022fall_amico_madilyn.pdf
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"The Great Saving is a heart-wrenching true story from the perspective of a young girl who realizes her parents are addicted to drugs. Madilyn and her siblings endure abuse, neglect, and trauma beyond measure. They're forced to grow up and raise each other, keep their parents' addiction a secret, and suffer silently and alone in rural North Carolina. Madilyn and her siblings can't help but anticipate the deaths of their parents or their own. But when her baby brother is born addicted to...
Dates:
2022
The Gulch, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_sztobryn_alicia.pdf
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"This thesis contains a synopsis and the first 13 chapters of The Gulch, a YA dystopian novel set in a future society where displays of emotion are deemed dangerous and punishable, an attempt to stem the depression and suicide that run rampant. The protagonist, 18-year-old Simon, struggles to contain his emotions and garners attention from the Minister, the strict leader of his city. Simon watches those closest to him buckle under the pressures of the city, and his mental health...
Dates:
2022
The Hands of Virtue, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_yeh_katherine.pdf
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"The Hands of Virtue is the first novel in a three-part series that follows three point of view characters in the wake of two world-ending catastrophes. Each character struggles to carve out their own sense of livelihood: Edie to keep her family together and alive, Haig to excel in a new job, and Mikhail to move on after trauma. The setting of a matriarchal society challenges conceptions of gender roles and adds pressure to the difficulties each character faces. The novel explores themes of...
Dates:
2021
The harmless things, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_haggard_kit.pdf
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"The stories in this collection seek to represent what is already surreal—loss, womanhood, queerness—by distorting the familiar. These characters come uncoupled from their lives in various ways, which force them to examine absences, relationships, acts of violence, and familial connections. Fabulist elements call attention to this process of evaluation, collapsing the distance between what is internal and what is external." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
The Hauntlands, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_bloem_noah.pdf
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"The Hauntlands is a slyly comedic fantasy adventure that follows four distinct characters as they move through a wild, magic, and often absurd world. Though coated in a paint of the odd, silly, and fantastical, the narrative's ultimate focus centers on the relationships characters develop even in adverse circumstances. Each character must deal with their own personal struggles, whether that be searching for one's lost memories or dealing with a newfound power, while simultaneously facing...
Dates:
2021
The Home Front, 2024
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Identifier: vm_2024spring_loughman_molly.pdf
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"The Home Front is an emotionally thought-provoking 25-minute short film that delves into the intricacies of small-town life and the hidden darkness that lies beneath its picturesque facade. Journalist Natalie Cruz is summoned back to her quaint New England hometown, tasked with unraveling the enigmatic layers of a serene lakeside community, Natalie must navigate the complexities of trust and betrayal as she seeks to unearth long-buried secrets. The film explores themes of grief, resilience,...
Dates:
2024