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Title: 2 Vietnams.
Creator: Rooney, Scarlett Elizabeth., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: 2 Vietnams documents modern Vietnam through alternating chapters of collage fictions and images: "East-West Documentation," "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour," "Correspondence," and "Confessional Archives." Although 2 Vietnams serves as a documentary-style account of the many Vietnams that exist and confront our American memory of Vietnam, each chapter contains social narratives that connect to each other forming larger, subtler narratives. "East-West Documentation" follows a fictional writer's...
Show more2 Vietnams documents modern Vietnam through alternating chapters of collage fictions and images: "East-West Documentation," "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour," "Correspondence," and "Confessional Archives." Although 2 Vietnams serves as a documentary-style account of the many Vietnams that exist and confront our American memory of Vietnam, each chapter contains social narratives that connect to each other forming larger, subtler narratives. "East-West Documentation" follows a fictional writer's experience living in Vietnam, conducting interviews and reading articles. "Vietnam in the Twilight-Hour" strings narrative poetry together with titles ranging from "Neocolonialism," "Love in Notations," to "SocialPolygrams." In addition to these poetic narratives are photographs that tell snapshot stories. "Correspondence" contains fictions such as "Think and It Will Happen," "StoryOptics," and "Flame of Life." Lastly, "Confessional Archives" contains images and non-fictional stories from veterans, both Vietnamese and American.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13310
Subject Headings: Memory in art, Vietnam--History--Pictorial works, Vietnam War, 1961-1965--Pictorial works, Symbolism in literature, Indochina--History--1945---Sources
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Cash Money" and other stories.
Creator: Miller, Sheryl., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: The short story cycle unifies autonomous stories to create a larger narrative. In a similar manner, a type of money group called Sous Sous, also known as a Hand, Box, Meeting, or Partner, unifies individuals in a communal endeavor that gives a larger purpose to the venture of saving. The stories in this collection comprise a short story cycle that is unified, in part, by its explication of Sous Sous, which is common in black communities in America and the Caribbean and believed to have...
Show moreThe short story cycle unifies autonomous stories to create a larger narrative. In a similar manner, a type of money group called Sous Sous, also known as a Hand, Box, Meeting, or Partner, unifies individuals in a communal endeavor that gives a larger purpose to the venture of saving. The stories in this collection comprise a short story cycle that is unified, in part, by its explication of Sous Sous, which is common in black communities in America and the Caribbean and believed to have origins in African culture. They share common characters and are also linked by a focus on money, materialism, or spirituality. Sequentially placed, most of the stories build on each other, creating a composite narrative.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13131
Subject Headings: African Americans--Economic conditions--Fiction., African Americans--Money--Fiction.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Beautiful You.
Creator: Williams, Richelle Ancronique., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: "Beautiful You", is a novel that embraces the life of a young woman at the peak of self-evolution. Her desire to attain the true sense of "beauty" leads her into the life of pageantry. As she journeys through the final three days of the Miss American Pageant, she sorts through episodes of her adolescence and present day situations to uncover the beauty of who she truly is. This tale of Jessica McBrie's life, allows us to feel the pains she has gone through, understand her thoughts and the...
Show more"Beautiful You", is a novel that embraces the life of a young woman at the peak of self-evolution. Her desire to attain the true sense of "beauty" leads her into the life of pageantry. As she journeys through the final three days of the Miss American Pageant, she sorts through episodes of her adolescence and present day situations to uncover the beauty of who she truly is. This tale of Jessica McBrie's life, allows us to feel the pains she has gone through, understand her thoughts and the thoughts of those she interacts with. Through her comical approach to disaster this novel encourages us all to evaluate who we really are and accept it, because, "only you can define the beautiful you."
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12987
Subject Headings: Self-evaluation--Fiction, Self-perception--Fiction, Beauty contests--Fiction, Beauty, Personal--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Bullet.
Creator: Pumphrey, Christopher J., Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Bullet is a collection of short stories that fictionalizes the last days of twentieth century world authors. Inspired heavily by the biographies of each writer, the stories depict the spiraling psyches of each suicide. Each narrator is carefully crafted out of the real life of each author though, first and foremost, each story is fiction. By the end, Bullet is a contemplation of both life and death from the perspective of the greatest minds of the last one hundred years. Only now, in the new...
Show moreBullet is a collection of short stories that fictionalizes the last days of twentieth century world authors. Inspired heavily by the biographies of each writer, the stories depict the spiraling psyches of each suicide. Each narrator is carefully crafted out of the real life of each author though, first and foremost, each story is fiction. By the end, Bullet is a contemplation of both life and death from the perspective of the greatest minds of the last one hundred years. Only now, in the new millennium, can the twentieth century be definitively sketched. Bullet is one of the first pieces of writing to do so.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000952
Subject Headings: Short stories, American, Symbolism in literature, Death--Fiction, Suicide--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Autumn.
Creator: Sciarrino, Christine Anne Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: Autumn is a short story cycle set in contemporary times, primarily in a South Florida village, using the viewpoints of two main characters: Angie Frisby and Chatov Faulke. It offers an example of the short story cycle through repeated and developed characters, recurring themes, imagery, setting, and shifting points of view. It will employ closure strategies that present an image of the future for both Angie and Chat, implying continuation of the story and/or characters, and how they might go...
Show moreAutumn is a short story cycle set in contemporary times, primarily in a South Florida village, using the viewpoints of two main characters: Angie Frisby and Chatov Faulke. It offers an example of the short story cycle through repeated and developed characters, recurring themes, imagery, setting, and shifting points of view. It will employ closure strategies that present an image of the future for both Angie and Chat, implying continuation of the story and/or characters, and how they might go down a multiplicity of different roads. In its desire to remain ambiguous, the conflicts surrounding Angie's and Chat's relationship will never fully be solved, just presented accurately through their perception; an antithesis will be created through their ongoing thoughts of present conflict and juxtaposition of life and death, separation and reunion, the harmony of the natural world and the disharmony of their internal ones.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13134
Subject Headings: Man-woman relationships--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Four Sparks Fall: A novella.
Creator: Noonan, Tiffany., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: four sparks fall is a complex narrative, darting among symbols, languages, puzzles, and styles. There is the story of Susanna, our narrator, and there is a diary of May, Susanna's twin sister---a story within a story. To further complicate matters, both narratives are "interrupted" by May, who manifests an uncanny ability to project her thoughts into Susanna's mind. In a sense, both characters know and do not know what is happening, and their struggle to come to terms with multiple ways of ...
Show morefour sparks fall is a complex narrative, darting among symbols, languages, puzzles, and styles. There is the story of Susanna, our narrator, and there is a diary of May, Susanna's twin sister---a story within a story. To further complicate matters, both narratives are "interrupted" by May, who manifests an uncanny ability to project her thoughts into Susanna's mind. In a sense, both characters know and do not know what is happening, and their struggle to come to terms with multiple ways of "knowing" is manifested in the structure, which experiments with visual layout and language in new, interesting ways. This project began as an experiment in "organic writing": the process of writing without a direction or end in mind. One of my weaknesses as a writer is a tendency to "over-think" my work, and four sparks fall represents my attempt to address this issue.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13329
Subject Headings: Symbolism in literature, Twins--Fiction, Sisters--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Paradise Revealed.
Creator: Ditusa, Michael, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: South Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living lives of quite desperation, while...
Show moreSouth Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living lives of quite desperation, while at the same time returning to their jobs in the service industry night after night smiling. Juxtaposing the faith-based life against the backdrop of the night life, the characters are all on a journey to discover their own paradise the area offers. Sometimes they find it in small moments they experience. Sometimes they find it on the open road leaving.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000910
Subject Headings: Florida--Social life and customs--Fiction., Symbolism in literature., Self-realization., Short stories, American.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: One Track Mind.
Creator: Kassay, Joel David., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: One Track Mind is a world wherein characters, driven by their unique, individual sexualities, are both prey and companionship for each other. The resulting, incessant shifting between cooperation and competition comprises the dramatic action of the stories. However, more dramatic than much of the action are the stylistic shifts of narration---both within and among the stories. This diversity of narrative style, much more so than invocation of place-names, describes and defines the myriad...
Show moreOne Track Mind is a world wherein characters, driven by their unique, individual sexualities, are both prey and companionship for each other. The resulting, incessant shifting between cooperation and competition comprises the dramatic action of the stories. However, more dramatic than much of the action are the stylistic shifts of narration---both within and among the stories. This diversity of narrative style, much more so than invocation of place-names, describes and defines the myriad landscapes of the world of One Track Mind: serene and absurd, lush and sparse, sincere and sardonic.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13031
Subject Headings: Narration (Rhetoric), Sex--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Please, Not at the Dinner Table.
Creator: De Gennaro, R. E., Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Please, Not at the Dinner Table is a series of eleven short stories that treat embarrassing or taboo subjects in an analytical manner that is often light-hearted and humorous. The stories, though fictional, are written in a realist style, and are set in contemporary times. As a whole, the stories deal directly and graphically with certain realities oflife that are often shied away from in literature. In dealing with these intimate, embarrassing, or unfortunate necessities of the human animal,...
Show morePlease, Not at the Dinner Table is a series of eleven short stories that treat embarrassing or taboo subjects in an analytical manner that is often light-hearted and humorous. The stories, though fictional, are written in a realist style, and are set in contemporary times. As a whole, the stories deal directly and graphically with certain realities oflife that are often shied away from in literature. In dealing with these intimate, embarrassing, or unfortunate necessities of the human animal, the characters often are forced to reveal their true natures, if only to the reader. Though parts of this collection are graphic, outright vulgarity is most often restricted to the voice of a character or narrator.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000909
Subject Headings: Short stories--Criticism and interpretation., Short stories--Collections.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Saints & Heroes.
Creator: Clavin, Keith., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: These nine fictions revolve around characters living in the borough of Queens, New York City in the early 1990's. The setting is a time when New York is suffering through major economic and social crises. The 1980's had been a time of decadence and over-indulgence, and the beginning of the next decade is forced to pay a large portion of the accrued debts. High crime rates and leaps in the cost of living have created tough living situations for young and old alike. During these years hope is a...
Show moreThese nine fictions revolve around characters living in the borough of Queens, New York City in the early 1990's. The setting is a time when New York is suffering through major economic and social crises. The 1980's had been a time of decadence and over-indulgence, and the beginning of the next decade is forced to pay a large portion of the accrued debts. High crime rates and leaps in the cost of living have created tough living situations for young and old alike. During these years hope is a difficult thing to find. Saints & Heroes illustrates both that lack of hope and the destitution of the situation. But also the escapes people might find while enduring. The collection ultimately commemorates the everyday activities of individuals that simultaneously cripple and sustain the inhabitants of a city.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13285
Subject Headings: Short stories, American--20th century, City and town life--Fiction, Conduct of life--Fiction, New York (NY)--20th century--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Waking Up.
Creator: Parker, Pamela Cox., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
Abstract/Description: Waking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and,...
Show moreWaking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and, finally, her first steps toward recovery.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13091
Subject Headings: Alcoholism in literature, Self-esteem in literature, Loneliness in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Transmutations, Transmigrations.
Creator: Brasseaux, Brandon C., Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The thesis proposed for my M.F.A in creative writing is a collection of vignette-length short stories with each story intended to be a self-standing narrative. Each short story in this collection will be dissimilar in narrative structure and contain characters of various age, gender, ethnicity, and geographies which do not intermix with the other stories. However, language style, mood, and tone will subtly overlap to provide glue, suggesting a kaleidoscopic whole. Thematically, the stories...
Show moreThe thesis proposed for my M.F.A in creative writing is a collection of vignette-length short stories with each story intended to be a self-standing narrative. Each short story in this collection will be dissimilar in narrative structure and contain characters of various age, gender, ethnicity, and geographies which do not intermix with the other stories. However, language style, mood, and tone will subtly overlap to provide glue, suggesting a kaleidoscopic whole. Thematically, the stories deal with a pattern of threshold moments: coming to terms with disillusionment, substance addiction, death, moral ambiguity, and futility.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000899
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Traveling Burrito King.
Creator: Stephens, Jason, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Traveling Burito King is a novel split into two narratives that work to compare the virtual to the real world and push against the politic climate created by anonymity It is a novel centered around the development of Denver and his avatar Dovim The novel demonstrates a confrontation with the fantasy of change and how that culminates in little more than a shift and an impossibility to turn back time
Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004767
Subject Headings: Fantasy fiction, Realism--Fiction, Shared virtual environments--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Cauterizing Tide.
Creator: Sullivan, Jonathan Barry, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Cauterizing Tide is a collection of short fiction. The stories feature characters struggling with managing or creating healthy relationships. Characters wrestle with their feelings about family, love, anger, longing, and addiction.
Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013266
Subject Headings: Short fiction, Short stories, Creative writing, Relationships
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Dreamscape: Selected Fiction.
Creator: Becher, Nicholas, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Included is a collection of speculative fiction by author Nicholas Becher that incorporates research from Cherokee folklore as well as experimental perspectives of place and tone.
Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005978
Subject Headings: Speculative fiction, Cherokee Indians--Folklore, Creative writing
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Forgot How To Ride a Bike: Selected Fiction 2009-2016.
Creator: Kane, Justin, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This manuscript is a collection of short fiction pieces workshopped in creative writing classes throughout my undergraduate and graduate career at Florida Atlantic University, influenced by the experimental and form-driven nature of some of the writing workshops as well as other courses I took during my years at the university. This work is especially preoccupied with the opposed and intertwined natures of genre fiction and literary fiction. Other themes include human nature, humor, food and...
Show moreThis manuscript is a collection of short fiction pieces workshopped in creative writing classes throughout my undergraduate and graduate career at Florida Atlantic University, influenced by the experimental and form-driven nature of some of the writing workshops as well as other courses I took during my years at the university. This work is especially preoccupied with the opposed and intertwined natures of genre fiction and literary fiction. Other themes include human nature, humor, food and cooking, tabletop games, and exploration of form in short fiction.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004861, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004861
Subject Headings: Short stories, American--Collections., Creative writing--Collections., Comparative literature--Themes, motives., Imagination (Philosophy)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Muckabout: Stories.
Creator: Parker, Matthew, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Muckabout: Stories is a collection of short stories that displays my growing emphasis on style and diction to sustain the reader’s attention within my work. This is accomplished, at times, by providing variations of tired, or expected, common uses of language (that is: language common to short stories that one commonly encounters in alleged “normative fiction”); and by persuading the reader to focus, most importantly, on the language and syntactical styling’s of the narrator.
Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004620, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004620
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: AGGREGATE.
Creator: Singh, Daniel, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Aggregate is a collection of short stories that chronicle the coming of age of its first-person narrator. He is a half Indian, half American boy who lived in 1990s New York City. The stories begin in childhood and run into his early twenties. They illustrate his experiences growing up and being othered in different ways. Themes of neglect, addiction, sexual assault, and violence create a cycle of abuse that repeats throughout his life. Each story can be read as a standalone piece, but when...
Show moreAggregate is a collection of short stories that chronicle the coming of age of its first-person narrator. He is a half Indian, half American boy who lived in 1990s New York City. The stories begin in childhood and run into his early twenties. They illustrate his experiences growing up and being othered in different ways. Themes of neglect, addiction, sexual assault, and violence create a cycle of abuse that repeats throughout his life. Each story can be read as a standalone piece, but when taken together they become a tapestry of trauma and a life of addiction. These stories aim to highlight the connection between trauma and addiction.
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Date Issued: 2022
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013886
Subject Headings: Short stories, Creative writing
Format: Document (PDF)

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