Keywords
fiction, short stories, literature
Abstract
We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend's grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother's final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother's evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left her behind. A teenager on the run finds' and loses' her first love. As desperately as they struggle to control their situations, their love lives, their families, and their emotions, they are often faced with simply having to come to terms with their realities. These eleven stories are intended to examine the ways people are capable of treating each other, both good and bad, and how people deal with the inevitably of being forced to move beyond what seems permanent, to create new identities, to laugh, and to learn from their mistakes.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2010
Advisor
Jensen, Toni
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
English
Degree Program
Creative Writing
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003035
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003035
Language
English
Release Date
April 2011
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Sullivan, Jaclyn, "We Will Make Your Head Explode" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4335.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4335