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Short stories -- 21st century

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

Girl From the Moon, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kang_elisse.pdf
Overview "What our minds label as "foreign," we tend to regard as exotic, threatening, or irrelevant. Our instinct is to neatly compartmentalize and hold at arm's length that which we have separated from ourselves. But what happens when the division between the foreign and familiar becomes ambiguous? Painful are the times in life when we discover the defection of the familiar to the foreign. A relationship with someone we love, an aspect of our own identity: it is disorienting, jarring, and unnerving...
Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Spring

Harmony and other towns, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_zeitlin_jeremy.pdf
Overview "The four stories center in and around a small Maine lobster fishing community of the writer’s creation. They deal with a range of social, cultural, economic, and political issues inherent to working-class towns like the ones created for these stories. More, though, they are intended to expose areas of the human condition that transcend the regional and demographic characteristics in which the stories are seated. The people here and their stories—their fears, their hopes, their hardships—are...
Dates: 2018
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2018 Spring

Heart mountain, 2015

 Item — Item 0113503186026: [Barcode: 0113503186026]
Overview

A collection of linked stories examining the impact of WWII upon the Japanese American community. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015

Heretics, Genies, and Flames, 2016

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Identifier: cw_2016spring_kalanish_emily.pdf
Overview

"A heretic and a genie. Drowning and burning. Can a heretic convert her coworkers to heresy? Can a genie grant wishes and make life less boring? In these two stories, both characters know that sometimes we need the fantasy in order to tolerate the reality. They also know that metaphors are fun and real life is hard. But knowing the facts doesn't make their worlds any easier." -- Abstract

Dates: 2016
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2016 Spring

Home, 2015

 Item — Item 0113503185960: [Barcode: 0113503185960]
Overview

A collection of short fiction that explores the relationships between family members, those close connections or estrangements that affect our feelings of the places and people that we consider home. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015

Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories, 2023

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Identifier: cw_2023spring_relick_amanda.pdf
Overview "Homecomings and Other Ghost Stories is a story collection that investigates the push and pull between grief and memory. Within these stories, the very act of remembering presents itself as a form of grief, where nostalgia becomes an act of mourning and the fallibility of memory is its own kind of loss. In grappling with these themes, characters are either running from their pasts or deeply indulgent in them. For the main character in the flash story, "The Outside Room," precious memories...
Dates: 2023
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2023 Spring

Insomnia and Other Stories, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_rosenthal_laura.pdf
Overview "Insomnia and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and flash fiction revolving around identity, loss, and the complexity of love. In each story, characters grapple with their identities in the context of the people they love, the places they call home, and the narratives of their past—personal and historical, individual and collective. Many of these stories portray Jewish life in the contemporary world, examining the ways in which the personal is political and the political...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

Instruments of ritual, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_title_cathryn.pdf
Overview "The characters in these stories are in degrees of estrangement—from lovers, from family, from religion, but mostly from themselves. They cling to rituals—therapy, remnants from organized religion, categorization of the world through listmaking, even things as mundane as making jalapeño cream cheese at a coffee shop five days a week. Whether they realize it or not, they are searching for something—maybe love, maybe spirituality, maybe purpose—all while wondering if finding solace can even...
Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2017 Spring

Intimacy issues, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_tallent_mark.pdf
Overview "This collection of short stories traces the subtle, often complicated, relationships between high school and college age youth in southeast Tennessee. Involving head-injuries, hemophiliacs, porn stars, psych majors, and ghosts, these stories portray an inequality of love between men and women, men and men, lovers and friends, the living and the dead. No one here knows quite what they're looking for, only that they must dive into these swift and treacherous waters, only that they must seek a...
Dates: 2018
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2018 Spring

Is this where you've been? : a collection, 2018

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Identifier: pw_2018summer_lazerwitz_catherine.pdf
Overview

"In this collection ... is the story of someone in the process of growing up and trying to find the right place." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2018 Summer

Lightning body complex, 2018

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Identifier: cw_2018spring_cromwell_jordan.pdf
Overview

"This is a collection of linked short stories about a man turned superhuman and his exploration into being super." --Abstract.

Dates: 2018
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2018 Spring

Lost but never alone, 2015

 Item — Item 0113503186059: [Barcode: 0113503186059]
Overview

The title of the collection comes from a consistent theme within the stories, focusing on relationships, whether they are friendships, husband and wife, or parent and child. --Abstract.

Dates: 2015
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2015

Machines of Empathy: Kindness on and off the Big Screen, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_gibbons_will.pdf
Overview

"'Our job as humans is to create our own souls. And I think one of the ways we do that is by finding the songs and poems that sustain us and explain us and make us brave enough to live in this world.'—Gregory Orr 'We're all just walking each other home.' —Ram Dass" -- Abstract

Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

Man/Misfortune, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_hargrove_jacob.pdf
Overview "I do not believe that it is creatively fruitful for a writer to summarize, explain, or even really comment much on their work before anyone gets a chance to read it. Doing so does not simply seem to take a lot of the joy out of the reading process, but it also seems rather antithetical to what makes experiencing art and fiction so special. This is to say, that telling you what these stories are about, or what I was trying to do while writing them, seems, in some central way, to intrude on...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Minor suffocations, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_mcnally_andrew.pdf
Overview

"A short story collection about people who might describe themselves as stuck. These are characters and stories who exemplify the times where we feel like life is moving faster and better for those around us, while we are forced to make drastic changes so we do not fall behind. My aim with this collection is to give voice to a certain emotion that we all feel at times, but one that we can struggle with identifying." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2017 Spring

Missing in Midtown, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_mambo_gabriel.pdf
Overview "'Missing in Midtown' is a collection of stories exploring the heart of every man and woman. The arguments, battles, estrangements, thefts, and moments of brutality within the narratives reflect the burden of humanity. In the collection's shared setting, a select few represent the wounded whole. Everyone has lost a part of themselves in Middleton, a worn-out city of rust. Conflicts sit unresolved, pain is hidden from the naked eye, hearts are broken with no chance of mending and separations...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2021 Spring

Morel Season, 2022

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Identifier: cw_2022spring_lepley_coltt.pdf
Overview "Morel Season is a collection of gritty short stories by Coltt Winter Lepley that depict struggles new and old based around characters all subtly connected to the fictional area of Laurel County existing in the Appalachia region of the United States. Stories in this collection focus around the relationships and hard times of characters who are trying to navigate their way through the ash pile of the mythical American Dream, or at least what's offered to them from a region often overlooked,...
Dates: 2022
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2022 Spring

Muralist's hand : stories, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_alyeumni_reem.pdf
Overview

This collection of short stories examines "the subtle aspects of fate and its consequences by writing about Middle Eastern characters, who are scattered across the map of these stories but indirectly joined." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2017 Spring

My Husband Isn't Cheating And Other Short Stories, 2021

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Identifier: pf_2021summer_fuller_daniel.pdf
Overview "The short stories included in this collection seek to explore the darker side of humanity. What happens when one person's obsessive love isn't reciprocated? How dangerous is a serial killer that knows how to control his impulses? Who would you side with, your husband or your best friend, when the consequences turn out to be deadly? What lengths would you go to find the answers you need? Some stories take a peek into the lives of those closest to us. How well do you know the man renting the...
Dates: 2021
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing (MFA) Program / 2021 Summer

My Share of the Body, 2020

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Identifier: cw_2020spring_capizzi_devon.pdf
Overview "My Share of the Body is a collection of short stories that revolve around grieving, ownership, and queerness. Each story confronts the process of grieving from an angle unique to character and circumstance, often positing loss as a yearning for the body of another. The collection attempts not to make sense of grief, but rather to explore the experience both in the immediate wake and beyond. As a whole, these stories question time, how time changes as we move through loss, and, still, how...
Dates: 2020
Found in: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections / RG 010.04A, Office of Graduate Studies / Master's Theses / Creative Writing (MFA) Program / 2020 Spring

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