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Title: The Mirror: A Book of Poems Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, and Identity, with Themes of Self-Reflection and Change.
Author: Clerico, Jake
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: This book came from the first poem I ever wrote, entitled "Mirrors." While nearly a decade has passed since I wrote the poem, I find it still relevant to my work as a poet today. Through multiple writing classes, I discovered that my poetry had ch...

Title: A Dream of Burning
Author: DeMeglio, Austin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A Dream of Burning takes place in a not-so-distant future of an alternate Earth. The story focuses on a young woman by the name of Iris Ode and her found family. The story starts three years after a great storm caused tragedy. After the storm, Iri...

Title: Needles and Dust
Author: Douglas, Charles
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
Description: Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...

Title: Dancing with Ink
Author: Duemmler, Kristina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Linguistics, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis contains the first 100 pages of the historical fiction novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, the first woman in the Early Modern Era to publish a prose poetry novel. The thesis begins and ends in the year 1651. It is ...

Title: The Society of Capes: Egos Revealed
Author: Fisher, Jordan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: In Paladin City, superheroes have become commonplace to the ordinary citizens--all of them except for twelve-year-old Catori Powers, who spends all her time dreaming of becoming a superhero. She finally gets her chance when she acquires her own su...

Title: Poor-Branded Women
Author: Goodnight, Melissa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
Description: MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...

Title: The Carbon Process
Author: Gunnink, Andrew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing, Genetics, Biology
Description: ABSTRACTAndrew Dale Gunnink. The Carbon Process. (Under the direction of Dr. Aaron Gwyn)Mark Bovert is a brilliant geneticist and plant biologist at MIT who is developing an experiment that will attempt to permanently fix the frailties of the huma...

Title: OWL-MAN: A HISTORICAL FICTION WORK IN 16TH CENTURY MESOAMERICA
Author: Hartis, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: "Owl-Man: A Historical Fiction Set in 16th Century Mesomamerica" is the start of a novel that aims to take both the reader and central character through a karmic process of rebirth as it would be viewed under the lens of Mesoamerican thought. Sant...

Title: TUNNEL AND OTHER STORIES
Author: KURZEJA, PAUL
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: There are seven short stories in this collection. "Tunnel" is the story of a young man who must face the suicidal thoughts of his girlfriend. In "To Relieve the Pain," a son must make a life and death decision for his dying mother. "Beached" looks...

Title: Men of Violence
Author: Kessler, Cory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: AbstractThe Cowboy Era in American history began following the end of the Civil War in the 1860s and lasted until the 1890s when much of the Western Frontier land was privatized and sectioned off by owners with the use of barbed wire. Despite the ...

Title: Curse of Time: Book One of the Agnavina Series
Author: Ku, Jay
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: This Master's thesis contains the first five chapters of my novel in the young adult fantasy genre. The story revolves around a young man named Kieran and will explore themes of identity, depression, and family (both biological and chosen). The no...

Title: The Institute: A work of Fiction
Author: Lazzara, Mishael
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A historical fiction novel set in colonial Belgian Congo during World War II, The Institute: A Work of Fiction centers around Mary Elkhorn, an American agriculturist who travels to a farming institute located on the Congo River. En route, Mary is ...

Title: Adrastea: A Novel
Author: Lynch, Emma
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Adrastea is a science-fiction novel that follows Adrastea on her journey from the moon to Earth in a misguided quest to find her sister. Set several thousand years in the future, after the Earth has been destroyed by climate change, this is a scie...

Title: The Acid Wielder
Author: Mair, Kathryn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: The Acid Wielder is set in a world where magic users are being eliminated. The story focuses on a young woman, Harlow, and the deadly acid magic she developed. She joins the Resistance to fight the Regent of Trevail and stop the systematic sacrifi...

Title: The Garden of Whispers
Author: Marlow, Mikayla
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis includes the first 100 pages of a young adult fantasy novel, in which the child protagonist uses a creative outlet as means of coping with the challenges of reality. This thesis is divided into six sections with three...

Title: Mara's Inferno
Author: Massachi, Dina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing
Description: Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...

Title: Realm Hopper Project: Out of Office, Into Hell
Author: Mauldin, Brandi
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Cato and Remy are two demons forced to form an alliance when Cato’s life is on the line and Remy has no choice but to repay an old debt. They embark on a quest to find the Fates, the only ones who can set things right again. As they journey throug...

Title: Looking Out From Another World
Author: McDonnell, James
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Looking Out From Another World is a collection of five short stories that revolves around Charlotte. It features characters who are experiencing dramatic crises, both from within and without. They try to make sense and meaning out of these crises,...

Title: Two
Author: Nicolau, Nathan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Howl, the studious college student, and Ella, the free-spirited art school dropout, are one and the same. Both have troubled pasts they want to let go of but do not know how to. On any other day, they would have never met despite both living in Ch...

Title: James no. 764
Author: Quitadamo, Melissa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision, but what excuse do the humanoids have? What of the Master Computer who was ...