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  • ACROSS THE BRIDGE; REMEMBERING AFRICA FROM THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS 
    Isaac, Cheryl Collins (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06-05)
    By the time she arrived in the United States in 1996, Cheryl had been a victim of the First Liberian Civil War which was started in 1989 as a coup attempt by rebel leader, Charles Taylor, to overthrow corrupt president, ...
  • THE ARCHBISHOP’S SON: A Novel 
    Hosek, Don A. (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06-19)
    The Archbishop’s Son tells the tale of Emil, an orphan raised in a Catholic orphanage in 1900 Prague. He discovers his mother had been one of the nuns at the orphanage and when he finds her, she tells him that his father ...
  • ARMADILLO’S CROSSING: A MEMOIR 
    Lockwood-Fleming, Katherine Bates (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06)
    One night Kathy Lockwood comes home to find her father has cut his hand and can only assume he has killed her mother. Her OCD and dysfunctional life lead her to expect the worse – and often that’s what happens. Like an ...
  • Asbestos: A Collection of Stories 
    Tier, Benjamin (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06)
    Herein contains a collection of my thesis work, consisting of short stories. Each story was written and revised during my time with the University of Tampa MFA in Creative Writing program. As an artist, I seek to explore ...
  • BACKBEAT THE WAVES: Selections from a Novel 
    Wilhelm, Gregg (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01-03)
    Set in a time between glam rock and filthy punk, “Backbeat the Waves” washes over the summer that changed Mercury Widdershins’s life. His divorced mother struggles to keep the family bar from sinking. His gay uncle gets ...
  • Better Times Than These: A Novel or Selections from a Novel or A Collection of Essays/Poems/Stories or Nonfiction 
    Cox, Daniel (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01)
    Better Time Than These is a compilation of eight short stories whose central themes revolve around the characters’ constant striving for goodness up against the simple human truths of hunger, weakness, honor, lust, and ...
  • BONECLOCKS: A Hybrid-Genre Novel 
    Tomassi, Adriana F. (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01)
    Boneclocks is a hybrid genre work consisting of a nonfiction foreword and a novel in multiple voices that utilizes typography, artwork, poetry and prose. The published version will be much more intricate and laden with ...
  • THE CHIMNEY: A Novella 
    Silvia, Jared (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-05-15)
    The Chimney is a postmodern literary noir which concerns Davey, a recently un-employed newspaper photographer who is conscripted into the service of an agency that deals in explicit celebrity photographs. Davey endeavors ...
  • CTHULHU’S BASEMENT: A Collection of Stories 
    Sanger, Katherine (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06)
    In the darkness, Cthulhu waits. But not very patiently. Instead, he hangs out in a basement apartment, eating the residents and plotting his return from R'lyeh to the universe we call our own. In these 19 stories, Cthulhu’s ...
  • Dark Humor Thesis 
    Garbatini, Matthew (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01)
    There is humor in everything. Not necessarily “ha ha” humor, but humor nonetheless. My topics of interest all derive from this theory. The mere absurdity of my characters and their situations are what make my stories ...
  • DEAD FISHWIND: A novel 
    Levey-Baker, Cooper (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06)
  • DRECKSACK: A Collection of Stories 
    Fuhrmann, Kari (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-05-15)
    This collection of short stories uncovers the thoughts and fears of traveling overseas. The stories in this collection are centered on an American point of view centered on traveling through Germany. Some stories focus on ...
  • A Fine Line: A Novel 
    McConkey, Ryan K. (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01-02)
    A Fine Line is a novel set during the Great Tribulation. Nothing has turned out like it was supposed to. The Great Tribulation has been going on for eight years, but Jesus has yet to return. The anti-Christ rules over a ...
  • FLESH IS NARRATIVE: a collection of poems 
    Duncan, Catherine Moore (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2013-11-15)
    This manuscript contains 64 poems, written in primarily open verse with some use of meter and measure in the line, as well as a blending of forms. The collection is comprised of variations on the theme “loss” within the ...
  • FRIDAY WAS THE BOMB: A Collection of Essays 
    Deuel, Nathan (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01-01)
    In 2008, Deuel, a former editor at Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, and his wife, a National Public Radio foreign correspondent, moved to the deeply Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to see for themselves what was ...
  • The Gospel According to Felix Kiger: Selections from a Family Memoir 
    Kiger, Travis M. (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-05-15)
    This thesis is composed of selections from a family memoir that serves three coinciding masters. First, it serves as familial oral history preservation, prompted by a coincidental meeting on an airplane, and probes the ...
  • Harry and Mary, Dancing the Twelve Steps 
    Richstone, Barbara A. (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-01)
  • IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE: A Collection of Stories 
    McFadden, Kevin Louis (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06-18)
    Set primarily in the Hudson Valley, this collection of stories features characters struggling with loss, certain death, and the inability to let go or hold on to the things most important to them. Often it is true that our ...
  • Like Something Wild: A Collection of Short Stories 
    Boussias, Christina (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-05-15)
    Like Something Wild is a collection of short stories that examines various subjects and themes, including cultural identity, tradition and the immigration experience, gender roles, coming of age, differing perceptions of ...
  • A LONG LINE OF SOMETHINGS: A Collection of Short Stories and a Novella 
    Allen, Kerri-Ann (MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2014-06-13)
    This collection of short stories and the beginning of a novella takes us on a journey through many different landscapes, some familiar and others not so much. The underlying link between these journeys is the relationships ...

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