Short stories, American -- 21st century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
To the World I Am a Drop of Water, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_montana_christina.pdf
Overview
"This collection of short stories focuses primarily on the theme of stasis. Each story features characters trapped by their traumas and anxieties as they search for ways to free themselves from those mental restraints. These stories replicate the way family, friendships, and relationships echo through locations; the way memories fill walls, trees, dust, paper... the way in which the spaces people occupy are constructed of the things we project. While none of the stories are linked, they...
Dates:
2019
Well-Known Stranger: Essays and Stories, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_mccoy_caroline.pdf
Overview
"This collection comprises nine pieces—six essays and three stories—that represent the best of my creative-writing career at Emerson College. The collection begins and ends with personal essays, the contents of which are echoed or further examined by the fictional works placed between. Central themes I explore include parent-child bonds, the tenuous relationship between mind and body, and notions of independence and partnership. The American South, my place of origin, is the setting for all...
Dates:
2019
What the ashes knew, 2015
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Identifier: cw_2015spring_mascioli_julia.pdf
Overview
"What the Ashes Knew is a collection of linked stories following a handful of characters united by a diary. These stories explore the ways people love each other and the ways they hurt one another (and themselves), with a particular focus on the repercussions of secrecy and the difficulty of knowing another person." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015