Browsing UCO - Graduate Theses by Degrees "M.A., English - Creative Writing"

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    • 89th and Pine. 

      Dicus, Blaize (2018)
      89th and Pine is a creative project that challenges the conventions of genre. While this work is labeled as a collection of poetry, the ultimate goal of the project is to subvert the norms of the genre, appropriately honor ...

    • A trip to Wonderland : a stage play. 

      Wright, Bonnie (2015)
      A Trip to Wonderland is a 90 minute play based on the Lewis Carol novel, the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Alice Liddell is presumed to be real in this story, and suffers from Lewis Carol syndrome, which symptoms ...

    • 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 ...

    • Cher ami. 

      Homen, Cheryl (2015)
      Cher Ami is based on a real pigeon that flew in WWI and saved the Lost Battalion, an American outfit led by Captain Whittlesey. Gaining a popular following immediately after the war, Cher Ami is displayed in the Smithsonian, ...

    • Corn silk dolls. 

      Vick, Sharen Fay (2007)
      When a family stays in an old farmhouse for a few weeks in the summer, their lives are changed when they find some corn silk dolls in the house. These are not ordinary dolls, they are soul-sucking dolls.

    • Dirty laundry. 

      Collins, L. Ranell (2010)
      Abstract excerpt: This play in two acts focuses on Ruth, a woman who cares for her elderly mother suffering from dementia. After meeting Wes, a hospice nurse, Ruth rekindles her dreams of becoming a writer and going to ...

    • 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 ...

    • I see the horse 

      Callaway, Kirk (2016)
      I See the Horse is a fantasy novel that follows the adventures of Komar Voorhexees of Port Karpricius during a time of civil war within The Ten Kingdoms of the Enlibar Empire. The primary focus or super objective of the ...

    • Murder/rapture 

      Spruill, Jeffery (2008)
      Lenny and Ira discover that they are good at and that they enjoy murder when Ira accidentally kills a stranger. They begin killing people by the scores until Lenny falls in love with a young, vibrant charity worker.

    • New kingdom. 

      Stringfield, Sarah (2007)
      "New Kingdom occurs in ancient Egypt and is loosely based upon historical figures and events involving the rulers Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III circa 1480-1479 B.C."--Abstract, leaf vi.

    • Regicide 

      Abel, Robert D. (2021)
      REGICIDE is a Young Adult fantasy novel inspired by the works of Sarah J. Maas, Cinda Williams Chima, and Brandon Sanderson. It follows three different young adults as they struggle to come to terms with who they are versus ...

    • Soul on fire : a musical. 

      Stanley, Tyrone (2010)
      Abstract excerpt: This musical follows Kisha, a young girl who was raped by a prominent member of her community, as she tries to prove that her story is true. It explores the aftermath of rape and abuse and its effect on ...

    • The black jessamine 

      Reckinger, Steven (2008)
      The play follows a prosperous family in an Oklahoma rural town. Garret Bedford is the owner of a large oil company. The town was founded on the Bedfords' wealth, therefore the residents regard Garret as a saint. However,Garret ...

    • The house of life. 

      Guo, Hongjun (2015)
      The story is set in a Chinese village, during 1970s. Souyuen, a woman in her forties, is the mother of two sons and three daughters. The Chinese tradition of males carrying the family name has given Souyuen, and her ...

    • The star quilt 

      Shottenkirk, Marcia (2012)
      The adopted daughter of a Cherokee woman and a likable country man, Ginny Hefner grew up an only child in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Wagoner in the decade of the 1930s. In that small town, against the backdrop ...

    • The terror within 

      Bradley, Cora M. (2008)
      Illustrates the degree to which people from all walks of life learn how to cope and survive at all costs. The internal struggle for balance in troubled lives is seen in the external circumstances of everyday living. This ...

    • The turtle 

      Robertson, Mike (2008)
      The entire novel is offset as a 'frame' story, a convention of American gothic stories and novels. The book contains a fictitious Editor's Note explaining the origin of The Turtle as being physically delivered to the world's ...

    • Valentine, Texas 

      Hawk, Victor (2008)
      Valentine, Texas begins with two men, lifelong friends, hunting buddies, guys who shot reflector lights out of mailbox posts and fought cowboys and Indians in grade school, and now find themselves on opposite sides of the ...

    • Willow. 

      Black, Terri L. (2017)
      'Willow' is a story about one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Human Trafficking. The world's population has never been higher. As a direct result, slavery has been more widespread. 'Willow' is a fictional ...