Friendship

Overview "Phoenix is forced to put her dream of being a writer on pause to move back to her hometown and take care of her elderly father as he succumbs to his dementia diagnosis. While she excels at caring for her father, she struggles to care for herself as grapples with her depression. Life feels like a cycle of existential dread until she gets a package from her former best friend, whom she hasn't spoken to in four years, inviting her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. Told in alternating...

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...

Overview "Fugue States, a collection of five short stories, comprises a range of literary fiction written during the author's time in Emerson College's Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. This collection, through a combination of first and third-person perspectives, experiments with both narrative retrospection and immediacy, exploring the desires and fears of myriad women. From kudzu-choked Tallahassee to a surreally post-apocalyptic Boston, these stories–humorous, vivid, and...