Introduction [excerpts] My manuscript, Absolute Zero, is a work of wholly original science fiction, though some faculty mambers will recognize it as based in part off The Zero Complex, my undergraduate thesis. This version rethinks the socio-political structure, emphasizing the rampant commercialism and inescapable poverty of the Lower class, while also slowing the pacing to approach Anna, the protagonist, with more detail and interiority to her...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Critical Introduction [excerpt] My manuscript, O Father, is a project that explores the intersectionality of religion, race, and gender in a post-apocalyptic North America, one that thas been transformed into a toxic theocracy. As a piece of speculative fiction, this project utilizes elements of the fatastical, and it shares commonalities with both classic dystopian literature such as 1984 by George Orwell and modern dystopian literature such as ...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Introduction [excerpt] Midnight is the first fifty pages of what is to be a novel over four times its current length. As the first quarter of the book, what was attempted in this thesis was to create a solid foundation for which the rest of the novel could be built atop without great concern about the novel's premise, voice, and direction. As a creative endeavor, it represents the culmination of six months of drafting and rewrites, as first envisioned in the short story ...

Abstract Nightshift is a short story collection that sets out to explore the nature of romantic and familial relationships while interrogating work and life balance whether they be artists such as in "Ellie" and "Quicksilver," working in the fast food industry such as in "Fashion Week" and "St. Cecelia Cemetery Confidential." The collection provides a mix of realist and speculative fiction involving an array of characters at...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Introduction [excerpt] When I was nineteen, I told my then-boyfriend a bold-faced lie: I can ski.... Somewhere along the line, I'd adopted the idea that it is easier to mold yourself to fit the expectation of others than it is to fall short. This inclination found its way into friendships, relationships, conversations at the bar, conversations in the classroom. It took up residence in a far corner of my brain, in the form of one of those old-school catalogs, where...