Middlescence
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. - John Gardner This thesis collection of fiction stories and creative nonfiction essays is titled “Middlescence” because after revision, every story I have written in the MFA was better when I started in the middle. The middle of a story is where the action is building to an inevitable climax. I wrote from a place where most of the main characters, including myself, existed in the lifespan of middle age. I am a feminist writer born in the middle of a family of girls, in the middle of the country, writing from the middle of my life. I explore themes of age, illness, class and culture. My characters are women with long views on life in their many-faceted roles as wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers. This thesis represents my evolution from a beginning writer to one who submitted to form, learned craft, found a voice on the page, and embraced revision as the work of the writer.
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Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Critical introduction -- Fiction -- What happens in the woods -- Medicated -- Lures -- Shipmares: water is life -- The Mary's -- The music made me do it -- The buck stops here -- Mixed signals -- Nonfiction -- On Sanibel -- Sister cayote, sage son -- Mcleod plantation -- The last American virgin -- Thirteen year curse -- Review: I am not hiding my hungers from the world by Kendra DeColo
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M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts)