Jones, Holly

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I Thought This Is What We Were Doing 2010 1209 My thesis is a collection of stories about men and boys who are trying to figure out what it is that they should be doing....
Thirty Thousand Miles Above. 2010 1168 This thesis is a collection of stories examining the successes and failures of hu-man connection. It portrays characters struggling to understand worlds, sometimes frigh-tening and bizarre but always larger than themselves, and it investigates the de...
On the care and feeding of animals 2011 4882 The following work contains narratives from characters who are experiencing isolation and loneliness in settings that are mysterious and, at times, terrifying....
The town that made monday, part I 2013 234 There they taught her modesty, chastity, silence, obedience... She did as she was told, but it was all very confusing, because she could not understand why the things that happen outside of people were so different from what she felt inside of her.--...
On the far edge of paradise: three short stories 2014 61 In each of these stories characters who are outsiders in their fictional north Louisiana towns search for truth and authenticity despite and because of the rigid social structures of their communities. In the first story, "On the Far Edge of Paradise...
Creepy and other stories 2014 256 The three stories in this manuscript "Creepy," "Elegantly," and "Bad Romance" interrogate the complexities, joys, and struggles of female friendship. In "Creepy," the first person narrator, Annie, develops a friendship with her neighbor, Ms. Jacobs, ...
Ten thousand miles away 2012 721 This is a coming-of-age novel about familial love, the flawed nature of memory, and the blurred line between self and body. It shifts between two perspectives: a young teenager named Julie who develops an exotic mental disorder, and her brother, Wolf...
The urge: stories 2021 31 The urges we have define us—the fleeting and the persistent, the unspoken and the shouted, the ones we run towards and the ones we run from. This collection explores how family, labor, and addiction affect characters’ search for connection, in our wo...
Lovebug and other stories 2015 390 This thesis contains a collection of three short stories. The first, “The Rise and Fall of Phil Darrow,” is about a man drinking too much alcohol while on an airplane. The second, “Omnipotence,” is about ...
Beautiful, broken 2015 800 Beautiful, Broken is a short story cycle set in south-central Pennsylvania between 1950 and 1982. This novel-in-stories focuses on Rosemarie Roberts, a nursing student who suffers a stroke at the age of twenty-five. She lives the next twenty years in...
Passing 2019 113 This is a work of fiction and a novel-in-progress....