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This work is a collection of short stories entitled Can't Choose Your Family. The collections consists of six stories produced during writing workshops at Florida State University. Humans have a great instinct for family, yet it's the...
This creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by...
The Art of Bear and Bee is a concept art book displaying the original story, character designs and concepts behind the fairytale of my own creation, Bear and Bee. The book is approximately 25 pages long, comprising of a table of contents...
Letter from Alexander Key to Lou Whitfield Miller, May 7, 1939
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Alexander Key updates Lou Whitfield Miller with another one of his stories that takes place in Florida called "Red Snapper, and will be published shortly.
This collection of short fiction and poetry is structured around the explorations of extremes. Split into two sections, this thesis delves into the reckless heat and motion of life and then looks at the cold meditative moments of pause....
Kelsey Schurer has compiled a collection of her work, both fiction and poetry, that explores the female perspective coming-of-age through story-telling. Joyce Carol Oates says in her introduction to her edited anthology Telling Stories, ...
William Wallace encounters secret passageways, disguises, and a quintet of horrible villains as he fights for Scotland at the turn of the fourteenth century.
The purpose of this study is to analyze fifteen junior novels as to the nature of the literary experience they offer. Such an analysis becomes significant to the teacher of high school English in view of the fact that many junior novels...
A Cold War is a screenplay that explores the feeling of living in the deep south while following Elise and Henry from unplanned parenthood into adulthood, an utterly human experience, the search for inner peace while battling inner demons.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Having been asked this question myself, at every stage in life, I find it ironic that not much of fiction deals with this subject. Sure, there's the "coming of age" category, but it seems...
Oscar is an exhausted corporate professional working for the counter-terrorism department of transportation giant Union Victory Railways. Alone and drug-addled in Chicago, Oscar has stated to lose the separation between his memories, his...
Letter from Edwin Granberry to Lou Whitfield Miller, May 5, 1939
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Edwin Granberry directs Lou Whitfield Miller where to find biographical information about himself. Granberry explains that Florida is a setting for many of his stories because it is familiar and inspiring to him. He states that he...
Literary contests have been quite popular in recent years among American publishers. Regardless of their merits, such contests have raised two questions for librarians charged with responsibilities for book selection. The first is...
The pieces included here represent the capstone of my work in undergraduate workshops in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction here at Florida State University. Each piece is wholly unrelated to the others and hopefully shows an...
"This paper presents an annotated bibliography of Florida fiction covering the years 1940-1952. The term Florida fiction as applied to this work indicates book length novels which have Florida as a background or setting for the action of...
This thesis is a creative project consisting of five short stories. Much of the material is influenced by the social interactions of my family members and friends. Situationally and thematically, the stories are concerned with class...
Letter from William Westall to Edmund Downey, November 30, 1900
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William Westall asks Edmund Downey if he would like the story they were talking about a while ago. Westall mentions editing his story by splitting a chapter into two.
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