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Item All That is Given(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-04) Levin, MeganIn All That is Given, Megan Levin confronts the shattering of the Davis family, and the pieces that spread and grow on European and American soil. After undertaking the task to heal from maternal divergence, daughter Aubrey and her husband Johannes Esser create their lives in the university town of Marburg, Germany. Back in New England, younger brother Isaac vows to keep his wife Muriel in an eternal state of felicitousness. Aubrey’s best friend and sister-in-law, Bridgett, soon becomes the median between what is left of the Davis family. With the help of a Parisian painter, she shelters her nephew before he too is caught up their perpetual familial feuds. This novel pilots readers though the Davis’ and Essers’ adolescent adventures through the use of flashback, and invites readers to explore the demands and cultural electricity of expatriation as it is seen through the eyes of young adults.Item Altar Call(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-14) Dupuy, Daniel"Altar Call and Other Stories" shows the division inside and between characters. The collection explores this relationship through prideful siblings, oblivious parents, and troubling neighbors. It contains themes of death, betrayal, moral duty, and mercy. The stories often feature the struggles of growing up as an older sibling through “Golden Hour,” where a sister struggles to process her relation to her ill brother, and “Brothers,” where the older brother must decide if he will defend his younger brother who is getting bullied. It features themes of physical deformity boys born with no arch to their feet in “Sins of the Father,” a father who has lost his eye to cancer in “How to Kill a God,” and a young man who tries to atone for his sins by plucking out his eyes in “Dust.” The stories are grounded primarily in reality with occasional diverges into the fantastical when the characters imagine events playing out, experience events half asleep, and go on bad drug trips. The language is focused primarily on metaphor, and each of the endings move towards an epiphanic moment, without stating each one explicitly. The stories attempt to draw from theological principles, but are grounded often anagogically rather than in parable or direct allegory. The characters are often unsympathetic and operate at odds to their own beliefs, resisting their own systems of thought. While they often move towards self-realization, they seldom experience a change in themselves, but there’s a change outside of them that transforms something or someone else, such as the unnamed man in “Asher” or the neighbor in “August.”Item Caleb and Other Stories(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-14) Schwartz, JosephCaleb and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction that explores the interactions between humans and animals. The collection features a cast of characters whose lives are irrevocably changed by these wild encounters. Their stories, like our own, challenge our perception of life, and the nature of our own existence.Item Hellscapes(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-04) Trumble, BrianHellscapes is a novel about the torments we create for ourselves, and the ones we let others put us in. Hell isn’t other people. Hell is us.Item The Jesuit(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-04) Winters, RichardItem Shelf Space(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06-14) Smith, AbigailIn “Shelf Space,” siblings Clint and Cindy are overwhelmed by life’s expectations, and left feeling unfulfilled. Cindy is listless in the family she’s built, and Clint is simply trying to keep from self-destructing. Reunited after three years, they learn to make peace with their choices and, most importantly, to keep space in their lives for those who matter.Item Silence Before Song: An Unauthorized Biography of Robin Waylan by Skylar Mesa(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-01-04) Amaro, AlisonSilence Before Song: An Unauthorized Biography of Robin Waylan by Skylar Mesa is a fictional biography about the late musician Robin Waylan, lead vocalist and guitarist for the rock duo Waylan & Hayes. It opens with a prologue by Skylar Mesa, the half-brother of Robin’s daughter, Jessica Waylan. In it, Skylar reveals his desire to know and understand the “real” Robin. The story of Robin’s life—his childhood, friendships, music, loves, family, death—is explored in the bulk of the text. The story is Skylar’s attempt to make sense of an otherwise private and misunderstood person, someone whose work has impacted and influenced millions of people while also alienating those closest to him. It concerns itself with mental illness, especially depression, and how it affects those same people. It wants to honor the power of music to reveal the deepest parts of someone, the pieces of a person that few people can truly see or know. The effects of Robin’s early life on his future success and downfall are at the center of the story, especially in the second half, where the next generation dominates the narrative. Robin’s best friend and bandmate Truman Hayes has his own section in the story. Robin’s first love Madeline Rossi, later Mesa, also has her own section, showing another important aspect of Robin’s growth as a man and songwriter. Essentially, this manuscript contains a coming-of-age story that revolves around music, friendship, family, grief, and love.Item Twisted Fates(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2018-06-14) Villines, ChondellShifting Fates tells the story of CeCe as she deals with the loss of her brother G, or Grisha as CeCe always called him. CeCe’s mother reveals long held family secrets as everyone comes together to plan the funeral. Can CeCe cope with the shifting realities, or will her grief and sense of betrayal overcome her?