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- Title
- Moving Water.
- Creator
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Arend, Alexandra, Thaxton, Terry, Poissant, David, Hubbard, Susan, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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Moving Water is a novella in which the characters must reckon with grief, time, the divine, and the mysterious bonds forged and broken with each other. Phoebe and her family come to terms with the death of Jason, Phoebe's older brother, and with themselves. Around them, the universe moves in ambivalent splendor, dying and being born anew.
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Identifier
- CFE0006558, ucf:51337
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006558
- Title
- Road Stories.
- Creator
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Mindar, Louis, Rushin, Pat, Bartkevicius, Jocelyn, Poissant, David, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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Road Stories is a collection of three novellas that explore the pull, allure, sanctuary, serendipity, and adventure of life on the open road. The novellas examine how for some, the road holds the promise of a new day, an improved life, a better opportunity, or a deeper love; while for others, it is nothing more than an assortment of jumbled blue lines on a map. In Tierra del Fuego, a man takes to the road to figure out how to deal with the grief and sense of betrayal he feels following the...
Show moreRoad Stories is a collection of three novellas that explore the pull, allure, sanctuary, serendipity, and adventure of life on the open road. The novellas examine how for some, the road holds the promise of a new day, an improved life, a better opportunity, or a deeper love; while for others, it is nothing more than an assortment of jumbled blue lines on a map. In Tierra del Fuego, a man takes to the road to figure out how to deal with the grief and sense of betrayal he feels following the death of his wife.Lake of the Falls involves a decades-long dispute between a father and son who take to the road and come to realize that home is not always where you live.In Back on the Road, three recent college graduates set off on a road trip inspired by Kerouac's On the Road to celebrate the end of their college years and lament the imminent approach of adulthood, only to learn that their lives are soon going to take vastly different paths.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- Identifier
- CFE0005670, ucf:50194
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005670
- Title
- Cold Snap.
- Creator
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Phin, Jonathan, Roney, Lisa, Neal, Mary, Milanes, Cecilia, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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Cold Snap is a collection of short stories that details the breaking down of self by those closest to us and the rebuilding process necessary to continue on in this diverse world. The sometimes autobiographical short stories attempt to explore the different stages of psychological and/or physical abuse and their aftermaths. Three short stories revolve around a singular family and include themes of cultural division, LGBT coming-of-age, neglect, and acceptance. The other short stories focus on...
Show moreCold Snap is a collection of short stories that details the breaking down of self by those closest to us and the rebuilding process necessary to continue on in this diverse world. The sometimes autobiographical short stories attempt to explore the different stages of psychological and/or physical abuse and their aftermaths. Three short stories revolve around a singular family and include themes of cultural division, LGBT coming-of-age, neglect, and acceptance. The other short stories focus on themes including but not limited to self-worth, fear, desire, and survival. All characters revolve around the Buddhist idea that to want is to suffer and conclude with how the protagonists live with those consequences.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- Identifier
- CFE0006486, ucf:51385
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006486
- Title
- POTENTIAL ENERGY.
- Creator
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Bull, Edward, Rushin, Pat, University of Central Florida
- Abstract / Description
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BULL, EDWARD. Potential Energy. (Under the direction of Pat Rushin.) Potential Energy is a collection of sixteen short stories. They range from the fictional to the autofictional to the entirely non-fictional. In all of them, characters both real and imagined struggle to live and define themselves in a world that is outside their control. They cope with the inevitability of loss, dangers both internal and external, and the passing of their own greatness. Some of these characters become lost...
Show moreBULL, EDWARD. Potential Energy. (Under the direction of Pat Rushin.) Potential Energy is a collection of sixteen short stories. They range from the fictional to the autofictional to the entirely non-fictional. In all of them, characters both real and imagined struggle to live and define themselves in a world that is outside their control. They cope with the inevitability of loss, dangers both internal and external, and the passing of their own greatness. Some of these characters become lost while others learn to embrace life on its own termsÃÂ--to accept ÃÂ"without hope or expectation.ÃÂ" More often, they are not lost or enlightened, but simply survive to continue on, still uncertain. Though all the stories in Potential Energy are stand-alone, they are thematically connected. The themes of family and identity are most prominent in ÃÂ"Potential EnergyÃÂ" and ÃÂ"Eulogy to Maria Mamani, Fire-Eater.ÃÂ" Loss is confronted and the question of what comes next is asked in ÃÂ"OystersÃÂ" and ÃÂ"Slide.ÃÂ" The conflict between fate and the need for control rises to the surface in ÃÂ"Threshold,ÃÂ" ÃÂ"The Elizabeth Years,ÃÂ" and the non-fiction story of Charles WhitmanÃÂ's deadly rampage in 1966, ÃÂ"Seed.ÃÂ" Themes of ambiguity, moral erosion, and literary exploitation appear in the non-fiction ÃÂ"Bright and Loud and Then Gone,ÃÂ" about a landlord burned alive in Chicago in 2008, and ÃÂ"What It Might Have Been Like If We Had Been There,ÃÂ" an apologetic for the writerÃÂ's right to write inspired by the 2007 Al Mutanabbi Street car-bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. Most importantly all the content of Potential Energy tells stories of people trying to hold on to what is good when, tragically, everything must eventually come to an end.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- Identifier
- CFE0003148, ucf:48651
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003148