Browsing Student Work by Author "Brown, Rebecca"
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A Nursery Rhyme from Another Summer
Thorlin, September LeighAbstract: This thesis was written as an experimental memoir on abuse and recovery. It explores these topics through poetry, prose, and experimental non-fiction. -
A Tiny Miniature World Where the Proportions Are Slightly Off
Burandt, Marina RoseI continually saw visions of a massive, black-roofed carnival structure being destroyed in the middle of the ocean. It stood on thin, wooden posts encrusted in mussels, and was intertwined with slides and rollercoasters ... -
Bed of Leaves
Sweeney, Nicholas LeeWhen her brother, Arthur, disappears, Cassie is the last to see him. Guilt-ridden and pushed aside by her mother, her classmates, and the very community she calls home, Cassie is forced to seek her answers in the one place ... -
Behind the Curtain
Livadariu, SabinaThis a testimony of dictatorship. A collection of personal memories and photographs that reflect the experiences of many. It is a look at the lives happening behind the curtain. And this curtain shifts its meaning throughout ... -
Black Medicine
Hoffman, AndrewBlack Medicine is a novella that combines elements of both the Western genre and the Gothic ghost story. The intention of the tale was to place the claustrophobia of Gothic ghost stories within the open spaces of the Western ... -
The Boatman of Hades
McArthur, Colin J.University of Washington Abstract The Boatman of Hades Colin McArthur Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Rebecca Brown Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences—Bothell The Boatman of Hades follows the life of Odis Heathman: ... -
County
Sanders, David AlanCounty is a book that examines relationships and forms myths through careful examination of and conversation with family photographs. The book relies heavily on the passing down of stories from one generation to the next. ... -
Excerpt from the Dakopeta Project
McCarthy, ThomasThe following Excerpt from the Dakopeta Project is a purely auditory experience for reasons that are further gone into in the project’s Statement of Work on the following pages. What the whole project attempts to achieve, ... -
Handmeal
Thompson, Siolotuma ElizabethA monograph on savory pastry, this book explores meat pies from a historical, art historical, and contemporary viewpoint. From Italy to the South Pacific, Bolivia to England, these linked essays examine the migration of ... -
Images of a Broken World
Shrauger, David M.Images of a Broken World is a creative thesis and a collection of short stories that explore violence in all of its forms and the destiny of humanity in a world that often rejects its humanity in favor of technology. An ... -
Japanese Blood in the Heart of the Gothic: An Anthology of Gothic Stories from the Japanese Diaspora
Hirayama, AmyJapanese Blood in the Heart of the Gothic is a fictional anthology of Gothic short stories from across the Japanese diaspora. Though the authors are fictional, they represent real Japanese communities outside of Japan and ... -
Life Could Be What It Is Right Now
LeCompte, Meta CamilleIntimacy is at the center of my poetics. My thesis is the journey of my speaker leaning into the intimacy that art and writing provides in order to accept the gift of darkness. Although a lot of the content in my collection ... -
Muses
Mandlin, Abigail ElaineMental illness is a hurricane: It has no mercy; it takes no prisoners. When you’re in it, there’s nothing else to think of other than survival. The rain beats down on you; the winds are unceasing. But what of when it’s ... -
Ordinary Saints and Monsters
Bauer, Ellen VictoriaOrdinary Saints and Monsters is a collection of short stories all centered on the topic of abortion in North America. The stories of clinic workers, patients, volunteers, and others connected to the topic are included in ... -
Phrases Of The Moon
Paschall, Michael WilliamPhrases Of The Moon is a collections of prose-poems, parables, riddles, aphorisms, and short stories linked together to form a web of creative mystery and revelation. Kafka, Borges, Mallarmé, and Nabokov are some of the ... -
Private Browsing
Brown, Scott WhittleseyPrivate Browsing is a literary novel about 30-year-old Lauren Donaldson dealing with the death of her twin sister. Lauren learns secrets about her dead sister and struggles with the thought that something is wrong with her ... -
Probably It Will Not Be Okay
Blakeslee, RebeccaWhy was I so caught up in the “real story”? So certain there was something to be told. So certain there needed to be something holding things together. Where does this desire come from, the desire to impose meaning or ... -
Remains
Seidemann, Katherine Marieto write requires dedication to word selection, imagery illumination, supple flow, integrity, faith, exploration. authors are embedded in their work. there is no way to be rid of the author. the ugliness, inhumanity, ... -
Stand-To
Prichard, Gregory ScottStand-To is an autobiographical piece composed of prose, poetry, and artwork. It reflects a soldier’s story during the Iraq war. The work also examines the effects of war on the soldier, their families and the people of ... -
Still We Rise
Simmons, Todd AllanUniversity of Washington Abstract Still We Rise Todd Simmons Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Writer-in-Residence, Rebecca Brown Creative Writing and Poetics Still We Rise is the story of a Special Olympics basketball ...