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Item AFTERLIGHT(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-15) Berry, StevenAfterlight is a modular work which utilizes 17 found artifacts from a collection of many objects discovered by the author. The author functions as a curator, presenting these artifacts to the reader. At the core of the work is a mystery: a town which has disappeared from both records and the physical world. Found items in Afterlight are presented in their original forms, both to preserve their integrity and to filter out narrator bias. The curator and reader investigate the artifacts together, piecing together evidence and making conclusions along the way. Instead of solely reading the book, the audience is expected to act as a co‑investigator. The premise of Afterlight is an experiment in presenting a narrative that deviates from traditional structure and instead is meant to be experienced like an exhibit or case file. Afterlight is a vehicle to explore motifs of secrecy, finding identity, the pliability of truth, the terrors of uncertainties and unknowns, coming of age, the illusion of innocence, and to what extent anything can truly be forgoen. The variety of source material utilized throughout the book provided ample opportunities to work in different modes and tones, resulting in a product that more closely resembles reality than a first‑ or third‑person narrative method. Most importantly, Afterlight was created as a record of a place with no record; it no longer exists outside of these pages. Therefore, preserving the memories and events of that place was a prime motivator in the creation of the book.Item The Ditch Between(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-01-05) Starling, AmandaThe Ditch Between is a collection of ten short stories set mostly in the seedy fictional city of Renton, Florida. Each story showcases multi-dimensional characters and their journeys from innocence to experience, focusing on the strange details of how humans interact with one another. Most of the main characters grapple with loss, and many are left to question love, their faith, and their connection to the spiritual world. The collection as a whole seeks to examine and tear down the nature of labels often assigned to members of the working class, race, and mental illness.Item Jeffers - Master Magician(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2017-06-15) Hooks, ChristopherIs Jeffers an Alligator Zoo Park magician or the Messiah? “Jeffers – Master Magician” is the story of two friends who live unapologetically on the edge of poverty in the rugged, un-decorous part of the South. Jimmy, a single father with an addict ex, and Jeffers, a magician whose tricks are closer to miracles, are immersed in a place where trailers and Hot Pockets dominate the landscape, and alligators roam free. Jimmy witnesses “losing” his best friend to his biggest trick gone awry, which dives the story into the friendship as it emerged in the Alligator Zoo Park and elsewhere. It isn’t until Jeffers’ return, clean-shaven and alligator bitten, that we realize his trick is a mere prelude for actual departure from this low world – leaving Jimmy behind in his hopelessness. Why do some of us escape and some of us stay? And what lurks there, gator-like, in the question of staying?