Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Squires, Constance"

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    • A more perfect union. 

      Milligan, Noah (2011)
      A More Perfect Union is a realistic novel set in contemporary Oklahoma City and follows Elijah McClure, a young poker pro who wishes to ask the First Daughter of Oklahoma, Kathryn Cook, to marry him the night her father ...

    • After six, at forty 

      Ngoka, Naomi Wanjiru (2014)
      This is a nonfiction memoir detailing my journey as an African immigrant. The focus is two pronged: it describes my deeper religious understanding as I went through a journey of barrenness to childbirth while simultaneously ...

    • Blood, bone : poems. 

      Eden Long, Katelyn S. (2016)
      A creative thesis of deep image and narrative medical poetry influenced by the photography of Eudora Welty, family, and personal experience. A collection exploring the human experience through the lens of medicine, ...

    • Born to hula 

      Smith, Gavin (2023)
      The thesis represents a body of poems accumulated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it continues to spread and the poet's subsequent ruminations in confinement. Born to Hula is a collection of poems exploring the ...

    • Crocus Albiflorus & other short stories. 

      Morris, Angela (2014)
      Crocus Albiflorus and Other Stories is a collection of 10 literary realism short stories. The collection is set in a broad scape of countries throughout the world, but all stories share the commonality of basic humanistic ...

    • Desiderium 

      Vance, Sydney (2022)
      Desiderium is a collection of poetry composed with the aim of investigating loss through the primary lenses of grief and addiction. The poems housed in this collection attempt to navigate that opaque, precarious experience ...

    • Dirty whirlwind. 

      Mirll, Jeanette (2013)
      My thesis is a collection of short stories. Most were written in workshop with the members of my committee, and the others I wrote for the purpose of inclusion in this thesis. The principal statement I wish to convey through ...

    • Disconnected. 

      Gifford, John (2010)
      Abstract excerpt: Contains eight short stories exploring themes of displacement, isolation, emotional stagnation, and personal transformation. Primarily set in the American South and narrated by first-person male narrators, ...

    • Drag me down 

      Pixler, Patricia; Pixler, Patricia (2021)
      This thesis is a creative project titled Drag Me Down. Though labeled a poetry collection, the project is a hybrid of multiple genres. The bulk of the collection consists of prose poetry that follows a narrative of two ...

    • Guns to keep. 

      Giles, Roy D. (2011)
      Rooted in the Central Oklahoma landscape, the three plays and seven stories in Guns to Keep explore parental betrayal, life without faith, and a loss of personal authenticity. The all-male rural voices often find themselves ...

    • Hatch 

      Hau, Melonie (2008)
      Hatch is a novel which examines the struggles of urbanization, drug additiction, alienation from community, and shame which threaten a rural Oklahoma family. The Metzers live on a farm in Hatch, a town formed in the 1890s ...

    • Hinterland. 

      Palmer, Betteanne (2007)
      A young adult novel set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, aims at an audience of fifteen years old or older. Identity and responsibility emerge as the two most important themes in this bildungsroman, as sixteen-year-old ...

    • Homecoming. 

      Lorenz, Cheryl (2017)
      The poems featured in Homecoming are narrative, and are written in free verse, prose and lyrical form. This anthology of poems was inspired by Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, Sonya Sones, and Ted Kooser. The ...

    • I dream of Major Nelson. 

      Little, Amy (2014)

    • Indecent foodie : a mini trilogy : streamed essays in memories. 

      Chambers, Alisha M. (2013)
      The eighteen essays in Indecent Foodie: a Mini Trilogy speak of how alone and ashamed, a promiscuous woman deprives herself of healthy attachments, healthy intakes, and healthy perspective. She devours the world and hides ...

    • Infidels. 

      Rupp, Zacharia A. (2012)
      Infidels is a short story collection dealing with a myriad of themes, most centrally of failed parenting, love, and yearning for the divine through spiritual brotherhood. The world the characters of Infidels inhabit is one ...

    • Ka'l woman and other short stories. 

      Johnson, Charles R. (2017)

    • Life in a doorway. 

      Freeman, Charlotte (2012)
      Life in a Doorway is a story about Brianna Fairchild who is a senior graduating from high school. The week before graduation her twin brother Hayden dies in a tragic accident at the school. Brianna, who was estranged from ...

    • Lost in luck : stories. 

      Cimock, Jason (2011)
      Lost in luck: stories is a collection of eight short stories written and revised during my time as a graduate student at the University of Central Oklahoma. The most prominent theme within the collection is luck. Specifically, ...

    • Moonlight and other stories 

      Degginger, Jeffrey (2015)
      Moonlight and Other Stories is a collection of Literary Short Stories. It primarily deals with families in conflict, whether it's a newly divorced man who is convinced his only son is gay, or a young boy wanting to separate ...