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Item A Collection of Short Stories on the Subject of Medicine(2021-05) Chmielecki, JacobA Collection of Short Stories on the Subject of Medicine consists of three short stories. Each revolves around the experiences of a patient with some kind of illness.Item Distorted Reflections: A Handful Of Stories(2019-05-01) Burma, Aarohan Mukherjee; Valentine, MatthewDistorted Reflections is a collection of short stories meant to be “entertainments” as defined by Graham Greene, stories whose primary purpose is to whisk you away to a different world, to bring raw pleasure that hopefully spices up your life a bit. The title comes from the fact that much of the scenery and characters in these stories are etched from my own life experiences. But these stories are not loosely autobiographical. Instead, they take readers in dramatic and dark directions by using graphic violence, profanity, and an overall sense of grit and oppressiveness I hope coats the page through my words. My hope is these stories maintain a realistic tone while having their characters go through harrowing and somewhat unrealistic events, a dichotomy I feel can grasp the readers attention. The stories are set in varying locations, ranging from the wintry chill of Iceland to the thick swamp air of Louisiana, but all of them feature a common thread in that they feature good, inherently relatable characters whose bad decisions lead to domino effects that derail their lives. I hope that the words to follow spark a little bit of joy in your lives, and you come away from these stories feeling a little bit excited and thrilled, and a little more pessimistic about the state of societyItem I Know You(2019-05-01) Doan, Laura; Casares, Oscar“I Know You” is a collection of short stories about growing up that is centered on and meant for adults or near-adults. It deals with the beauty that comes from observing and asking questions, urgently and of everything including yourself, but has much more to do with the pain of losing innocence. To trace the full extent of that pain, each of my stories evoke some significant delights of childhood: in “A Box in Manhattan” it is a surety about people, in “I Know You” it is a glittering fantasy about perfect love, in “Fragile Things Outside the Treehouse” it is a feeling of safety. The characters are at different stages of life—early high school, senior in college, early thirties—but they are all stubborn women who deny until the last possible moment that those significant childhood delights cannot survive in the world as they have come to know it.Item Memoir of a Nobody: Identity in Pursuit of Legacy(2020-05) Sun, NicoleA 2012 study found that “fame for its own sake” was the most popular future goal among a group of ten- to twelve-year-old’s, trumping aspirations for wealth or a sense of community. The thesis examines the human urge to “matter” in the context of technologies that facilitate the average person’s quest for stardom. On a platform like YouTube, for example, anyone could amass an audience of millions and sustain mass friendships of one-way intimacy. Through a creative and academic perspective, the thesis explores the psychology behind and the ramifications of lusting after fame and legacy. The creative component is the first part (six chapters) of a novel, Memoir of a Nobody. Jamie, the main character, is a university senior majoring in Content (on the Realness & Relatability track) who tries to become “somebody” in a futuristic world dominated by influencers and, to an absurd extent, the You® conglomerate. When she is rejected from the “Hall of Humanity,” an influencer’s project to exhibit the day-to-day lives of “regular people” to his massive audience, Jamie will stop at nothing to get seen on her own. As she increasingly obsesses over broadcasting her “true” life, she begins to question whether it’s possible to project any real image for public consumption. The academic component is an accompanying treatise addressing five questions—regarding fame, legacy, and identity—with which I engaged while researching for and writing my creative thesis.Item Unsettled(2020-05) Harralson, ClioUnsettled explores the emotions underlying the transformation of Austin, Texas. I engage in practice-led research, using photography as a form of investigation; the resulting candids, portraits, and city scenes express what words alone cannot. In Unsettled, I pose the question, “How do you feel about change in Austin?” People respond in unpredictable ways, and the stories told in the photographs raise more questions than answers. In Unsettled, I share my photographic research with readers, but I do not offer a definitive conclusion. It ultimately becomes up to readers to answer for themselves, “How do you feel about change in Austin?