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The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell
Title
The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell.
Creator
Martin, Colton, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis/novel, The Marvelous Garden of Marcel Verdell, follows the fictional story of one local government bureaucrat, Jude Wintertour, into the irregular and viridescent town of Garden, wherein he encounters the titular gardener, Marcel Verdell, and, along with a host of other residents, confronts the oppressive, convoluted past, envisions a hopeful future, and lives with the consequences of the blindsight-choices of the present.
Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013583
Subject Headings
Fiction, Novels
Format
Document (PDF)
THE DREAMS OF GODS
Title
THE DREAMS OF GODS.
Creator
Wilson, Benjamin, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
The Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the...
Show moreThe Dreams of Gods is a surreal-realist novel that follows a grieving man in the wake of his wife’s death through a strange conspiracy that seems to bend reality around him, forcing him on a curious odyssey of self-discovery, eventually leading to understanding as he learns how to come to terms with himself and the world around him. It is an exploration of the many faces of god and the universe, as well as humanity's place within it all. Inventive and energetic, the hairbrained plot takes the reader deep into a world that becomes more bizarre with each page, while fantastical characters pop in and out of the story in shocking and comical ways and nothing is quite what it seems.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013711
Subject Headings
Novels, Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)
Enclaves
Title
Enclaves.
Creator
Piesco, Justin, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Enclaves is a fiction novel set on an Earth ravaged by climate change and follows characters trying to find meaning in a life constantly threatened by weather. It addresses themes of adventure, death, competition, and capitalistic consequence.
Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013833
Subject Headings
Fiction, Novel
Format
Document (PDF)
Consider the Flowers of the Field
Title
Consider the Flowers of the Field.
Creator
Sutton, Trina M., Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Consider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one...
Show moreConsider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one takes up the preaching mantle, one is the promiscuous, drug-addled antithesis of what her parents stand for, and one daughter is born after her parents start their new life so she has no concept of how things used to be. Consider the Flowers of the Field asks, “How do we transcend, embrace, or reject the dogma of our youth?”
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Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013028
Subject Headings
Novels, Creative writing, Dogma
Format
Document (PDF)
About Her: A Novel
Title
About Her: A Novel.
Creator
Mattingly, Mary, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
About Her is a story of grief, regret, and the lengths some of us will go to avoid confronting and healing from trauma. Charlotte Day is a twenty-year-old college student embarking on her senior year of college when her younger sister Abby dies in a botched fake suicide attempt. In the wake of said tragedy, Charlotte is left behind with her loving, well-intentioned father and sedated, increasingly distant mother. As Charlotte attempts to cling to normalcy, her efforts fail once she returns to...
Show moreAbout Her is a story of grief, regret, and the lengths some of us will go to avoid confronting and healing from trauma. Charlotte Day is a twenty-year-old college student embarking on her senior year of college when her younger sister Abby dies in a botched fake suicide attempt. In the wake of said tragedy, Charlotte is left behind with her loving, well-intentioned father and sedated, increasingly distant mother. As Charlotte attempts to cling to normalcy, her efforts fail once she returns to school, seeking out a path of unhealthy relationships and partying, which culminates in the former honors student dropping out of her senior year. A coming-of-age story at its core, About Her explores the dysfunctional ways one young woman navigates grief and fractured relationships while learning to forgive herself along the way.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013237
Subject Headings
Novel, Creative writing, Grief
Format
Document (PDF)
Into Memory: A Novel
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)
Inheritance
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)
THE FEED
Title
THE FEED.
Creator
Tierney, Duncan, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Feed is a novel set in a fictional post-revolutionary Nebraska, at a time when the developments and progress of the revolution begins to come into question. The former revolutionaries must dive into an internet-like database, referred to as the Feed, in order to unearth memories critical to their survival.
Date Issued
2024
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014422
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Novels, Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)
GAY CHRISTIAN SPEED DATING
Title
GAY CHRISTIAN SPEED DATING.
Creator
Donovan, Emily, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Journalists are supposed to stay neutral. But, when it comes to reporting on a viral protest against a gay conversion therapy program, young, lesbian reporter Anna Mitchell isn’t so sure she agrees with what’s neutral anymore. Gay Christian Speed Dating takes place in Iowa City, Iowa and follows Anna Mitchell, who has moved in with her parents after getting laid off from her prestigious breaking news job. When performance artist college kids go viral protesting a local gay conversion therapy...
Show moreJournalists are supposed to stay neutral. But, when it comes to reporting on a viral protest against a gay conversion therapy program, young, lesbian reporter Anna Mitchell isn’t so sure she agrees with what’s neutral anymore. Gay Christian Speed Dating takes place in Iowa City, Iowa and follows Anna Mitchell, who has moved in with her parents after getting laid off from her prestigious breaking news job. When performance artist college kids go viral protesting a local gay conversion therapy program, it might be Anna’s one shot to get back in the journalism game. But Anna has conflicts of interest: a crush on the girl who is leading the protest, and, even worse, her own opinions on the subject matter that she can’t seem to keep from spilling. This contemporary new adult novel is 42,000 words in a tone of The Great Believers meets Priestdaddy.
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Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013485
Subject Headings
Novels, Gay fiction, Creative writing
Format
Document (PDF)
HOTEL
Title
HOTEL.
Creator
Kerns, Benjamin, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis is a novel that takes formal cues from works such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. The work takes two separate forms in its chapters; the first being more traditional narrative chapters that follow a set of characters as they explore the surreal landscape of the titular Hotel, and the second are akin to flash fiction pieces that describe individual rooms in the Hotel. Together the narrative attempts to address issues of class and the...
Show moreThis thesis is a novel that takes formal cues from works such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. The work takes two separate forms in its chapters; the first being more traditional narrative chapters that follow a set of characters as they explore the surreal landscape of the titular Hotel, and the second are akin to flash fiction pieces that describe individual rooms in the Hotel. Together the narrative attempts to address issues of class and the way that capitalism subsumes people’s identities, as well as the potential of the natural world using leftist politics as a lens for this critique.
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Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013449
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Novels, Narratives, Flash fiction
Format
Document (PDF)