Short stories -- 21st century

Overview "This collection of short stories and flash are the best I've written during my graduate education at Emerson College. These stories follow a style distinctly my own, examining the human condition of individuals in their 20s. The men and women represented in these stories are adrift, not successful or happy, and are living inconsolable lives: a man starts digging to China to find his estranged wife, a young woman tries to find solace by accosting her favorite musician, a filmmaker attributes...

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Collection of thirteen stories, eight of which are short-shorts.

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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.

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Linked short story collection exploring a year, 1993-1994, in a small fictional city in the Basque Country within Spain. Against the backdrop of the Basque County's struggle for independence in the wake of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Franco r

Overview "This collection of short stories shines a light on the impermanence of friendship while also asserting its transformative potential. Two girls become close and get separated by fearful parents, only to meet up again in later stories with a whole new set of challenges. A young man in college wants his social life to return to the way it used to be in a time before severe insecurity. People want to impress, to hide the truth, to dismiss reality at great costs to themselves. At the heart of...

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"The following collection of stories explores humankind at its most vulnerable. These stories range in length, from short story to flash and even micro fiction. Characters experience loss and isolation, learn to cope with grief, and come to terms with their own complex identities. Gender and sexuality are major themes present in these works of fiction, demonstrating both the dangers and pleasures that arise when people considered "other" enter society." -- Abstract

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"My work, entitled Thesis: Four Stories, is a thesis project that contains four stories. Each story is about everyday people managing everyday problems within worlds that are strange and zany." -- Abstract

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"Anglo, Latino, Afro, Indigenous, and immigrant all struggle and blend with one another for preservation and evolution in El Valle, a sprawling, fictional city in the heart of Arizona." --Abstract.

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This collection is filled with prose that develops rhythms and themes in richness of detail and character. Those who want wealth or love will discover the high price of both success and failure in those endeavors in these stories. And after all that, some

Overview "Turn the Siren On is a collection of linked short stories that explores life in a small town and how living in such a place informs the relationships and connections one has with themselves as well as those around them. Each story examines some form of loss and how that changes and shapes the characters. Some of the stories attempt to show the ways in which loss can unravel a person and ripple through generations while others demonstrate how losing someone or something can open our eyes to...

Overview "This manuscript, titled after the plural form of the Spanish word for wake, would be best read as a mounrful study on the death of childhood. The stories herein seek to inhabit the minds and emotional states of a Panamanian-American couple in the aftermath of the end of their relationship, complicated by the colliding of youthful passion, abandon, and naivety, with the harshness of consequence, guilt, trauma, and regret. It is not a moralistic tale. Rather, it explores the ways we grieve...

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"A collection of linked short stories centered around two main characters, twins, and their adventures. The collection explores the question of what it means to be 'We' and the complications involved in that state of being. The twins, brother and sister, remain unnamed throughout these stories and are largely characterized by their relationship to each other against all others. The stories in this collection range from standard-length short fiction to micro fiction." --Abstract.

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"This collection of short stories explores many different characters, all of whom are struggling with their relationships with themselves, their family members and partners, and even the world around them. Each story studies the nuances of the different relationships people form and break throughout their lives. They are linked through their setting of El Paso, Texas, which is my hometown and a place I've always considered to be of underestimated beauty and appeal." -- Abstract.

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"Six tales of young American women navigating instances of isolation or separation from their lovers, colleagues, siblings, and families, as well as from personal and professional desires, sexual identity, social expectations, and spirituality -- and, invariably, from themselves." --Abstract.

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"This work is a collection of formally experimental short stories exploring fault lines in the human experience: the limitations of our senses and understanding of reality, our self-contradicting desires and fragile sense of identity, our awareness of our inability to affect time or avoid loss and death." --Abstract.