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Title: Aftermath: The End of the Event.
Creator: Geiger, Kira, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: My family has always been a source of inspiration to me. In the following sections, I attempt to capture the unique experience of growing up as one of them: how they’ve shaped me as I have grown, and the marks we’ve left on one another.
Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004837
Subject Headings: Geiger, Kira--Family., Children--Family relationships., Interpersonal relations., Self-actualization (Psychology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Mornings in the Athens of America: stories.
Creator: Gersie, Katrina, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The eleven short stories in this collection can be described as autobiographical fiction, combining true instances from the author’s life with fictional characters and events. The stories explore the themes of grief and loss, coming of age, and the importance of preserving the natural world.
Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004372, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004372
Subject Headings: Autobiographical fiction, Short stories, American, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Self in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The animalcules of Adam: & other small tales.
Creator: von Kursell, Mikaela, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Inspired by the baroque prose of Melissa Pritchard, The Animalcules of Adam: & Other Small Tales is a genre-bending short story collection that incorporates elements of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. Spanning in subject and setting, from the primitive bear rituals of Finland to the coroner’s inquests of 19th century England, the purpose of this thesis project is to develop a uniquely immersive voice, while ostensibly investigating the origins of curious inventions, including the...
Show moreInspired by the baroque prose of Melissa Pritchard, The Animalcules of Adam: & Other Small Tales is a genre-bending short story collection that incorporates elements of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. Spanning in subject and setting, from the primitive bear rituals of Finland to the coroner’s inquests of 19th century England, the purpose of this thesis project is to develop a uniquely immersive voice, while ostensibly investigating the origins of curious inventions, including the microscope, the kaleidoscope, and the first English dictionary. This collection borrows from, and deliberately manipulates, the texts of important historical figures, such as Walt Whitman, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Cawdrey, in an effort to make a home in the voice of another. It is a playful and linguistically sensitive study of the nature of invention; a meta-fictional commentary on the anxiety (and ecstasy) of influence; and above all else, a celebration of the written word.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004170, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004170
Subject Headings: Pritchard, Melissa--Influence., Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Short stories, American., Authorship., Storytelling., Shared virtual environments.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: This American Bizarre.
Creator: Sword, Adam, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This is a collection of fiction that draws on the author’s own experiences as a western foreigner in America, while also taking inspiration from many different art forms and their depictions of American life, as experienced by outsiders. The themes of this collection center around the discord and disparity prevalent between British and American life. The other key theme in this collection is how violence seems to be simmering, always near at hand, in a country like America. In this way, many...
Show moreThis is a collection of fiction that draws on the author’s own experiences as a western foreigner in America, while also taking inspiration from many different art forms and their depictions of American life, as experienced by outsiders. The themes of this collection center around the discord and disparity prevalent between British and American life. The other key theme in this collection is how violence seems to be simmering, always near at hand, in a country like America. In this way, many of the stories allude to a kind of violence taken to be something unique to American society, which often goes unrealized or unacted upon, or sometimes unravels accordingly. The thesis project itself considers how these stories could only take place in America today, and how the aforementioned cultural discord, or disharmony, connects the narratives with a shared feeling of cultural commentary about the country as a whole.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013267
Subject Headings: Fiction, Short stories, American society and culture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The future will be better tomorrow: a novel of apocalyptic sarcasm.
Creator: Irving, Christopher J., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Future Will Be Better Tomorrow is a satirical post-apocalyptic novel that examines the personal and social ironies that occur in a society that is unbalanced by an unexplained apocalyptic event. Working with a combination of dark humor and the terrifying realities of an apocalyptic event – in this case: a blackout – the novel aims to challenge the machinery established by this particular subset of the science fiction genre.
Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004124, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004124
Subject Headings: Computer science., Computer communication systems., Data structures (Computer science)., Database management., Information storage and retrieval., Artificial intelligence., Computer Science., Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory., Database Management., Information Storage and Retrieval.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Into Memory: A Novel.
Creator: Garber, Madison, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: In Into Memory, memory is no longer something which resides in the past. Instead, it is a substance which can be extracted and consumed like a hallucinogenic drug, immersing consumers in a vivid and immediate past whose physical effects linger long after the images of that memory disappear. For Paul Mendez, these memories offer an escape from a present defined by grief, while former professional football prospect Calvin Long seeks to reconnect with a past too long stained by regret. For law...
Show moreIn Into Memory, memory is no longer something which resides in the past. Instead, it is a substance which can be extracted and consumed like a hallucinogenic drug, immersing consumers in a vivid and immediate past whose physical effects linger long after the images of that memory disappear. For Paul Mendez, these memories offer an escape from a present defined by grief, while former professional football prospect Calvin Long seeks to reconnect with a past too long stained by regret. For law school student Kara Douglas, selling erotic memories is simply a business transaction—that is until she considers removing the parts of her past that stand in the way of the future she desires. Set in the rolling hills of contemporary Tallahassee, Into Memory explores the relationships that we maintain, for better or worse, with our pasts and what we will do to avoid, restore, or change them.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013206
Subject Headings: Novels, Creative writing, Memory
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Keepers of the Word.
Creator: Mcdermott, Thomas, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Piglasio children suffered great hardship after the loss of their father and the disappearance of their eldest sister. Raised by a single mother in the ruin of childhoods already long gone, Frances and Michael wrestle with young adulthood, their faith and each other. One runs hundreds of miles away to seek adventure and friendship in Maryland. While the other runs only a mile, joining the efforts of a good-hearted young man who takes in the homeless.
Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004521, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004521
Subject Headings: Brothers and sisters--Family relationships--Fiction., Homelessness--Fiction.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Inheritance.
Creator: Rowland, Natalie K., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a second draft of a novel about an orphaned girl and boy, Kate and Penn, who befriend one another on a Midwestern college campus and discover belonging and a sense of self, as well as a fantastical quality they both possess called Influence. The story explores themes of family, friendship, community, fear culture, and adult identity.
Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005997
Subject Headings: Novels, Fiction, Creative writing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Shifters.
Creator: Ortega, Donovan, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Shifters is a novel that takes place in a city in which humans and humanoid creatures called “shifters” are grown in test-tubes and taught how to live by androids and books. The city belief structure is centered on supernatural beings called Guardians. The Guardians never appear, but are symbolized by a Light above the horizon. Humans and shifters live under oppressive social structures that limit their agency. Most of the city’s inhabitants do not realize they are enslaved by arbitrary...
Show moreShifters is a novel that takes place in a city in which humans and humanoid creatures called “shifters” are grown in test-tubes and taught how to live by androids and books. The city belief structure is centered on supernatural beings called Guardians. The Guardians never appear, but are symbolized by a Light above the horizon. Humans and shifters live under oppressive social structures that limit their agency. Most of the city’s inhabitants do not realize they are enslaved by arbitrary systems. The novel’s protagonists must learn to overcome these damaging constructs and journey away from the city in order to find a new life, free of fabrication and falsity.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004397, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004397
Subject Headings: Paranormal fiction, American, Androids--Fiction, Supernatural in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Our Bodies of Water.
Creator: Grabenhorst, Kim, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This novella is a realist fiction project that works to show the relationship of two young girls, Mary and Ginny. Mary is the main character and she delivers the narrative in first person, present tense, though in a slipstream, retrospective style. The narrative follows the two girls’ relationships to their bodies and each other as they move into adulthood. Mary is enthralled by Ginny and they each find comfort in the other’s fatness. Ginny’s eating disorder begins to progress as Mary’s...
Show moreThis novella is a realist fiction project that works to show the relationship of two young girls, Mary and Ginny. Mary is the main character and she delivers the narrative in first person, present tense, though in a slipstream, retrospective style. The narrative follows the two girls’ relationships to their bodies and each other as they move into adulthood. Mary is enthralled by Ginny and they each find comfort in the other’s fatness. Ginny’s eating disorder begins to progress as Mary’s declines, and their friendship deteriorates as a result.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004598, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004598
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Only the Body Remembers.
Creator: Geraci, Jeanette, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Only The Body Remembers is a collection of poems, lyric essays, and short stories that explore several subjects, including love (both romantic and familial), loss, grief, sexuality, identity, and obsession. The primary thematic thread that binds this collection together is somatic memory -- the way the body records experiences, and the strong emotional charge these recorded experiences carry.
Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004838
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature., Identity (Philosophical concept), Identity (Psychology), Self (Philosophy), Mind and body.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Legends that sleep kick Bogotá at night.
Creator: Burgos, Diana, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Legends That Sleep Kick Bogotá at Night is a short story collection that parodies the gender, moral, and social constructs of Colombian mythology and folklore. Set in contemporary times, the stories depict slews of grotesque transformations and rituals happening during plane flights, sibling tomfoolery, neck kisses, social network log-ins, trips to the family graveyard, conversations with escorts, and waves of town gossip. The folktale monsters aim to enlist the reader as their accomplice in...
Show moreLegends That Sleep Kick Bogotá at Night is a short story collection that parodies the gender, moral, and social constructs of Colombian mythology and folklore. Set in contemporary times, the stories depict slews of grotesque transformations and rituals happening during plane flights, sibling tomfoolery, neck kisses, social network log-ins, trips to the family graveyard, conversations with escorts, and waves of town gossip. The folktale monsters aim to enlist the reader as their accomplice in their quest to fight against the forces that seek to permanently subdue and marginalize them.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004270, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004270
Subject Headings: Physics., Nuclear physics., Heavy ions., Hadrons., Particle acceleration., Condensed matter., Engineering., Materials science., Physics., Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: How we die and how we don’t.
Creator: Hesse, Megan, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Kate Zeller is nearly thirteen, with hair like a rat’s nest and the temperament of a dog chained up against its will: moody and likely to bite you. She lives in the small town of Brookford with her twenty-two year old brother Teddy and her grandfather, Tony, an acclaimed graphic novelist. As summer turns to autumn, two things barrel uninvited into Kate’s life: one is Raleigh, a strange new girl with a head full of Shakespeare and a secret knowledge of ghosts. The other is the Alzheimer’s that...
Show moreKate Zeller is nearly thirteen, with hair like a rat’s nest and the temperament of a dog chained up against its will: moody and likely to bite you. She lives in the small town of Brookford with her twenty-two year old brother Teddy and her grandfather, Tony, an acclaimed graphic novelist. As summer turns to autumn, two things barrel uninvited into Kate’s life: one is Raleigh, a strange new girl with a head full of Shakespeare and a secret knowledge of ghosts. The other is the Alzheimer’s that sneaks itself into her grandfather’s head and begins to steal it away, piece by piece. The history and tragedy of the Zeller family begins to unwind as reality blurs with fantasy, creator with creations, all being watched by a man who lives deep in the forest that connects Kate’s house to Raleigh’s. A man with eyes that tick.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004377, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004377
Subject Headings: Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Family relationships--Fiction, Grandparent and child--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Homonorm.
Creator: Rachesky, Scott Pierce, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: “Homonorm” is a collection of short stories that explores the gay male experience and challenges gender expectations. Through an exploration of form and content, each story serves to illuminate different issues in the gay community and in society. Where one story explores the issue of youth obsession with magical realism, the other tells the story of a gay artist’s sexual awakening and struggle with HIV and AIDS through a series of still-life photographs. This eclectic collection serves to...
Show more“Homonorm” is a collection of short stories that explores the gay male experience and challenges gender expectations. Through an exploration of form and content, each story serves to illuminate different issues in the gay community and in society. Where one story explores the issue of youth obsession with magical realism, the other tells the story of a gay artist’s sexual awakening and struggle with HIV and AIDS through a series of still-life photographs. This eclectic collection serves to break the stereotype of gay fiction and undo the gender norms for men through fantastical situations and a-typical forms of fiction to underscore the idea that life and community are varied and so too should be the representations of these two groups.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004841
Subject Headings: Gays' writings, American., Short stories, American., Gender identity--Fiction., Gay men--Fiction., Gays in popular culture., Homosexuality--Social aspects., Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Hello down there.
Creator: Polansky-Shiman, Risa, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: As an undergraduate journalism student, I was taught the “little person, big picture” reportage technique – in essence, using an individual’s story to illuminate a larger issue. In this collection, in which I aim for honesty and relatability, I position myself as the “little person” in essays meant to convey one individual’s experiences and thoughts in hopes of touching another individual who’s gone through similar experiences or had similar thoughts.
Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004409, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004409
Subject Headings: Social psychology, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Creative thinking, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Somewhere Florida.
Creator: Notarnicola, Christopher James, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Somewhere Florida is a collection of short stories which take place in or revolve around Florida. Each story interrogates or demonstrates aspects of introversion as manifest in story settings and situations, character (un)involvement and (in)action, and narrative mode.
Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005975
Subject Headings: Short stories, Florida, Introversion
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Somewhere South of Home.
Creator: DiPaulo, Dustin J., Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This is a work of creative nonfiction that details the authors’ own experience with homelessness, relays the stories of homeless individuals he has encountered, challenges conventional notions of poverty and what it means to be home, and invites the reader to imagine herself into a day in the life of a destitute individual.
Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013011
Subject Headings: Creative nonfiction, Homelessness, Poverty
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: SMALL STORIES.
Creator: Kiplagat, Daphne, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: “Small Stories” offers a glimpse of the kinds of stories that risk going unknown: stories of historical Africa and its sustained influence on the present and future, voices of women, community, and communal resistance to expulsion from history. At a macro level, the intent of this collection is to demand diversity and inclusivity in the modern literary, social, and academic culture. Rethinking history by inaugurating a wider set of evidentiary sources from the past does not mean escaping to a...
Show more“Small Stories” offers a glimpse of the kinds of stories that risk going unknown: stories of historical Africa and its sustained influence on the present and future, voices of women, community, and communal resistance to expulsion from history. At a macro level, the intent of this collection is to demand diversity and inclusivity in the modern literary, social, and academic culture. Rethinking history by inaugurating a wider set of evidentiary sources from the past does not mean escaping to a complete amnesia about the current position of Africans in literary arts, but recognizing that no single form of historical evidence can be used to accurately incorporate our story into literature
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013689
Subject Headings: Stories, Creative writing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Rat Mouth.
Creator: Baker, Aiden, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Rat Mouth is a collection of fictional stories that speak to the absurdity of girlhood. These stories focus on the precarious situations women are put into when their physical bodies are valued more than their internal lives.
Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013734
Subject Headings: Short stories, Fiction
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Title: Home Home.
Creator: Hawkins, Matthew, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Home Home is a collection of nonfiction essays addressing themes of mental health, popular culture, queerness, setting, and sexuality.
Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013678
Subject Headings: Essay, Nonfiction
Format: Document (PDF)

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