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Between Us and All
Title
Between Us and All.
Creator
Davidheiser, Caitlyn, Papatya Bucak, Ayse, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Between Us and All is a collection of fictional stories addressing themes of gender, religion, family, class, and sexuality. A portion of this manuscript is a linked collection of short stories, following the fictional Kelly/Sullivan family through their daily lives in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania.
Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013196
Subject Headings
Short stories, Fiction, Themes
Format
Document (PDF)
STRATEGIES OF DISCONNECTION: A SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Title
STRATEGIES OF DISCONNECTION: A SHORT STORY COLLECTION.
Creator
Graves, Daniel, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Strategies of Disconnection is short story collection focusing on memes or rather the intersection of modern internet meme culture, meme theory, and Christianity, capturing the realities of an era of memetic upheaval (in 2016 the search term “Meme” overtook the term “Jesus” in popularity) when the digital and the spiritual seem to overlap, both contending for attention. Memes are culturally analogous to genes, both serving as entities driven toward survival and reproduction. Yet, and entities...
Show moreStrategies of Disconnection is short story collection focusing on memes or rather the intersection of modern internet meme culture, meme theory, and Christianity, capturing the realities of an era of memetic upheaval (in 2016 the search term “Meme” overtook the term “Jesus” in popularity) when the digital and the spiritual seem to overlap, both contending for attention. Memes are culturally analogous to genes, both serving as entities driven toward survival and reproduction. Yet, and entities analogous to genes, memes find themselves contending for survival. These stories inhabit the perspective of memes as characters attempting to acknowledge existence alongside their genetic counterparts: An unnamed creator who falls for Lucy, the first set of hominid bones, an actor who avoids notoriety after having played the role of god, and internet troll Anon, who lives on 4chan.
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Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013469
Subject Headings
Short stories, Memes, Memetics
Format
Document (PDF)
Somewhere Florida
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)
LATE AFTERNOON AND FIVE UNSPOKEN STORIES
Title
LATE AFTERNOON AND FIVE UNSPOKEN STORIES.
Creator
Almonte, Mauricio J., Mitchell, Susan, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
The thesis consists of a novella and five short stories, all narrated from the perspective of a mute diasporic narrator who chronicles several returns to a nameless Caribbean village. Against a rich intertextual backdrop, these texts predominantly explore issues of mutism, the relationship between language and a sense of place, intricacies of translation, and the orality-literacy spectrum.
Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013729
Subject Headings
Short story, Novellas
Format
Document (PDF)
Rat Mouth
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
Format
Document (PDF)
AGGREGATE
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)
Cauterizing Tide
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)
All My Sins
Title
All My Sins.
Creator
Ryan, Craig, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
All My Sins is a collection of short fiction. The stories feature characters from Florida struggling with family, sexuality, masculinity, ethics, and themselves.
Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013257
Subject Headings
Short fiction, Short stories, Creative writing, Florida
Format
Document (PDF)
Please, Not at the Dinner Table
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)
ALL RETURN
Title
ALL RETURN.
Creator
Rodriguez, Juan Alonso Romero, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
All Return is a short story collection centered on nostalgia, and the desire of going back to a place or time, which sometimes doesn’t exist anymore. The characters that populate the collection, are all returning or trying to go back, either to a physical place, a language, to an age of innocence, or to loved ones. While the book tries to portray stories of immigrant lives in parts of collection, the desire of immigrants to sometimes return to their countries of origin are not exclusive to...
Show moreAll Return is a short story collection centered on nostalgia, and the desire of going back to a place or time, which sometimes doesn’t exist anymore. The characters that populate the collection, are all returning or trying to go back, either to a physical place, a language, to an age of innocence, or to loved ones. While the book tries to portray stories of immigrant lives in parts of collection, the desire of immigrants to sometimes return to their countries of origin are not exclusive to them, but universal. The stories in All Return remind us that we are all going back, or long for a place or time that exists without us.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014103
Subject Headings
Short stories, Creative writing, Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)
This Kind of Trouble
Title
This Kind of Trouble.
Creator
Eze, Tobechukwu, Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
The story, This Kind of Trouble, follows the life of its protagonists, Margaret, a 65-year-old woman living with schizoaffective-disorder in 2012 Nigeria, and her estranged husband, Benjamin, a White presenting man born to mixed raced father. Although Margaret exudes class privilege, she pursues in her retired years a kind of desperate anonymity, often complicated by echoes of her past: an ex-husband, and the haunted past of an unforgivable crime from which they must now seek absolution....
Show moreThe story, This Kind of Trouble, follows the life of its protagonists, Margaret, a 65-year-old woman living with schizoaffective-disorder in 2012 Nigeria, and her estranged husband, Benjamin, a White presenting man born to mixed raced father. Although Margaret exudes class privilege, she pursues in her retired years a kind of desperate anonymity, often complicated by echoes of her past: an ex-husband, and the haunted past of an unforgivable crime from which they must now seek absolution. Indeed, the story attempts to invert the discourse on illness and assimilation, as well as on race and citizenship. It does this by tackling the themes of colonialism, cultural identity, and the formulations of the Immigrant v Expatriate trope. Essentially, through this work I ask two critical questions: how has colonial mental constructs travelled over time, and how does a person become Black in the global Western imaginary?
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013888
Subject Headings
Short stories, Fiction, Creative writing
Format
Document (PDF)
The Secrets My Mother Shared in the Womb: Stories
Title
The Secrets My Mother Shared in the Womb: Stories.
Creator
Bermúdez, Jocelyn, Bucak, Papatya, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
A collection of stories exploring the intersection of queerness, latinidad, spirituality, and the generational impact of storytelling. This collection aims to examine the relationships between religion, tradition, politics, and the concept of culture as it crosses borders through a fictional mythos. Many of these stories reflect the hopes, desires, and anxieties of young Latinx individuals across the Americas while expanding and evolving the definition of Latin American literature.
Date Issued
2024
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014379
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Short stories, Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)
This American Bizarre
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)
Yesterday Will Come
Title
Yesterday Will Come.
Creator
D'Sa, Meryl, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Yesterday Will Come is a hybrid collection of linked short stories that focuses on the way a particular family passes down the family history through physical and emotional memories. The collection largely focuses on the process of making and preserving memories and how the lack of control over one’s memory can lead to paranoia and displacement in their life. Particular value is attached to certain memories and the value and emotion attached can at times overwrite the actual content of the...
Show moreYesterday Will Come is a hybrid collection of linked short stories that focuses on the way a particular family passes down the family history through physical and emotional memories. The collection largely focuses on the process of making and preserving memories and how the lack of control over one’s memory can lead to paranoia and displacement in their life. Particular value is attached to certain memories and the value and emotion attached can at times overwrite the actual content of the memory. The stories center around the Riviera family and particularly Ana Riviera’s life as she considers the many aspects of her family history she continues to inherit and the comfort and paranoia she associates with such inheritance.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013200
Subject Headings
Short stories, Creative writing, Family history
Format
Document (PDF)
certain animation
Title
A certain animation.
Creator
Christakis, George A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This is a collection of short stories that flirt with non-traditional forms. They are character-driven pieces, in which plot is of secondary importance to the relationships created and established. Ambiguity and abstraction are valued, as is the balance between mood and humor. Scientific principles fuel some of the pieces here, most of which do not attempt to take place in reality, but rather create their own arena to contain the events that follow.
Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3340698
Subject Headings
Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American
Format
Document (PDF)
invisibility of here and there
Title
The invisibility of here and there.
Creator
De Stefano, Kelly., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
These are collected short stories all dealing to varying extents with the theme of being stuck or captured in an experience or in a moment gone past, often events of hardship or trauma. Some characters explore this territory in desperation, and some seem to become stoic reminders of these pasts, unable to accept the responsibility to move on and allow the experience to mature them and help them grow. I have concentrated on this theme as an aspect of suburbia, the kind of place in which I have...
Show moreThese are collected short stories all dealing to varying extents with the theme of being stuck or captured in an experience or in a moment gone past, often events of hardship or trauma. Some characters explore this territory in desperation, and some seem to become stoic reminders of these pasts, unable to accept the responsibility to move on and allow the experience to mature them and help them grow. I have concentrated on this theme as an aspect of suburbia, the kind of place in which I have grown up and where my characters spend the most time. This collection has been a personal journey for me as well as an exploration in character motivation through imagery depicting the key influential moments in these characters' lives.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3340695
Subject Headings
Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American
Format
Document (PDF)
Life in the sunshine and other short stories
Title
Life in the sunshine and other short stories.
Creator
James, Elisabeth S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Language: the sounds of it, the richness of its rhythms, the connotative and the denotative meanings of words have all played a part in my development from a child to the adult I have become making a life for myself. Whether the words I heard flew like fiery darts, or whether they lifted my weary soul, I somehow always found they meant something to special me. Because of my love of language, I began early to read voraciously. The first novel that I read was Gone with the Wind. That story...
Show moreLanguage: the sounds of it, the richness of its rhythms, the connotative and the denotative meanings of words have all played a part in my development from a child to the adult I have become making a life for myself. Whether the words I heard flew like fiery darts, or whether they lifted my weary soul, I somehow always found they meant something to special me. Because of my love of language, I began early to read voraciously. The first novel that I read was Gone with the Wind. That story whisked my imagination to a dark and mysterious time and place that, along with the narrative powers of my mother, convinced me that Margaret Mitchell had recreated a real world from her imagination. I still have my own dream that there is a mysterious and hidden world waiting for me to recreate out of my imagination, too.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360804
Subject Headings
Symbolism in literature, Short stories, American
Format
Document (PDF)
The Florida Wilds
Title
The Florida Wilds.
Creator
Alberton, Edwin
Abstract/Description
Being tales of adventure and romance from a land of romance with stories of plantation life. Contains: Fire-hunt and its sequel; McLeod at the log-rolling; Day of rare sport and an exciting conclusion; Plantation scenes and incidents; Lost, and an awful encounter; Story of startling adventures; Panther hunt; Bee tree and the plan for a camp hunt; Story and adventure of Billy McLeod; Cracker -- Cracker courtship, or, Billy McLeod, the matchmaker.
Date Issued
1906
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000144
Subject Headings
Short stories, American, Florida -- Fiction, Florida
Format
E-book
Out of the ever after and other stories
Title
Out of the ever after and other stories.
Creator
Amadori-Segree, Claudia., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Out of the Ever After and Other Stories is a collection of language-driven stories set in different parts of the world and thematically linked, comprising realist narratives and magical realism. The trope that unifies this collection is that of the journey. The characters go on journeys, whether real or metaphorical. Many are lost at the beginning, but they find themselves in the end; others remain lost, but have a better understanding of their condition in the world. Although diverse in...
Show moreOut of the Ever After and Other Stories is a collection of language-driven stories set in different parts of the world and thematically linked, comprising realist narratives and magical realism. The trope that unifies this collection is that of the journey. The characters go on journeys, whether real or metaphorical. Many are lost at the beginning, but they find themselves in the end; others remain lost, but have a better understanding of their condition in the world. Although diverse in nationality, cultural background and gender, the characters in the eight stories share the need to find a lasting identity and a home-place to return to, whether physically or psychologically. The collection alternates magical and realist plots, male and female narrators, points of view, and diverse settings to create variety and a multicultural, hybrid and hyphenated experience. Some stories experiment with language; others have a more traditional mood, akin to fairytales.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77641
Subject Headings
Short stories, Collections, Short stories, Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Fiction, Technique
Format
Document (PDF)
Mother's forgotten garden
Title
Mother's forgotten garden.
Creator
Zimmerman, Cory Daniel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
The thesis proposed for my M.F.A. in creative writing is a collection of conceptual American short stories written in a variety of forms that properly suit their respective subjects. Like a handful of miscellaneous wild seeds scattered over a tilled garden, the goal of the project is to represent the wild asymmetry of Nature via a collection of unlikely companions. For this reason, the conceptual form of each story often takes root in scientific or symbolic representations of Nature (i.e....
Show moreThe thesis proposed for my M.F.A. in creative writing is a collection of conceptual American short stories written in a variety of forms that properly suit their respective subjects. Like a handful of miscellaneous wild seeds scattered over a tilled garden, the goal of the project is to represent the wild asymmetry of Nature via a collection of unlikely companions. For this reason, the conceptual form of each story often takes root in scientific or symbolic representations of Nature (i.e. sine and cosine curves, the yin-yang, etc.). The plot of loose soil holding these collective experiments together is their earthy thematic focus-namely, the way in which Nature has been systematically backgrounded by western ideology. On occasion, a story's conceptual focus may stray from these ecofeminist principles, but only for the purpose of leveling a more critical or satirical eye upon common American ideologies.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186303
Subject Headings
Symbolism in literature, Nature in literature, Short stories, American
Format
Document (PDF)

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