Keywords
short stories, fiction, speculative fiction, literature
Abstract
A collection of seven fiction short stories focused on death and mortality, with genres represented including horror, fantasy, science fiction, and literary. The stories include an ecological epistolary narrative set in the near-future, a modern retelling of Hamlet, a Biblical flood narrative, a polyphonic retelling of the Bluebeard myth, a realist drama about abuse and healing, a darkly comic story of a woman planning for her own death, and a sci-fi story about two robots defying their programming to save a flower from destruction.
Completion Date
2026
Semester
Spring
Committee Chair
Bartkevicius, Jocelyn
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Creative Writing
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Identifier
DP0053166
STARS Citation
Mesler-Evans, Susan, "Wormfood" (2026). Graduate Studies Theses and Dissertations 2026. 127.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/gradstudies_etd_2026/127
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