Better Times Than These: A Novel or Selections from a Novel or A Collection of Essays/Poems/Stories or Nonfiction
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2014-01
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
Abstract
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 courage, to name a few. Some
manufacture their own misery and slide into darkness, while others, by simple fate, find
themselves faced with impossible situations with impossible odds.
Through the gearing of the physical to the felt, these characters push the bounds
of human nature by subverting the myths upon which our preconceived notions rest,
calling all certainty into question. They allow us, as readers, to stack cruelty against
compassion, evil against good, and give us a glimpse of the possibility of redemption and
grace for even the worst of us.
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Short stories, Fate, Human nature, Redemption, Good vs evil