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Item Restricted Breastshot(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Loveland, Grace, author; Altschul, Andrew, advisor; Ausubel, Ramona, committee member; MacKenzie, Matt, committee memberBreastshot is an exploration of human suffering through the lens of the fantastic. In a series of short, interconnected stories, this novel imagines a world where magic, witches, and gods exist alongside pop stars and fast food burritos. As characters search for meaning in a world that has changed overnight, issues of absurdity and faith are addressed as avenues for exploration and understanding.Item Restricted Desert grey(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Hayes, Esther Marlena, author; Altschul, Andrew, advisor; Ausubel, Ramona, committee member; Bowser, Gillian, committee memberThis collection of short stories and essays engages both the infertility of a landscape rendered unrecognizable by environmental change and the enduring fertility of the bodies that live there. The majority of the collection takes place in my first home—the deserts of Nevada. This is a landscape that has been abused both for its infertility and its fertility. It has been a site for nuclear tests and a dumping ground for waste; it has had tunnels carved into its mountains for the gold and the silver in its veins. In places real and invented, my characters—both real and invented—ask how to move forward. Will we be forgiven for what we have done?Item Restricted Hope is oxygen(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Senie, Evan, author; Levy, EJ, advisor; Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria, advisor; Ausubel, Ramona, committee member; Khrebtan-Hoerhager, Julia, committee memberThis novel is about Jeb, Cam, and an unnamed mind character. Jeb is from Cape Cod, and he's kind of a schlub in his mid-twenties who works a job he doesn't like and drifts through unsatisfying relationships with women. He meets Cam, a bartender, also from the Cape, who struggles with depression. Jeb and Cam begin dating, which forces each of them to deal with change in their lives and a changing understanding of love. Meanwhile, the mind character observes, as he has for most of Jeb's life, making sarcastic and mocking comments, both about Jeb and the people around him. As Jeb and Cam fall in love, the mind character also falls in love vicariously and becomes aware of the possibility of becoming joined with Jeb and therefore becoming embodied and having agency. As Jeb and Cam struggle with new conceptions of love and responsibility, the mind character becomes more and more desperate to join the world, to finally have control, and to avoid losing Cam.Item Restricted That one place and other stories(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) Craig, Katherine, author; Levy, EJ, advisor; Alexander, Ruth, committee member; Ausubel, Ramona, committee memberThat One Place and Other Stories is a collection of nine short pieces of fiction, each of which explores relationships amid extreme circumstances and the consumer culture of the late-20th- and early-21st-century United States. The protagonists, primarily women in Colorado, grapple with the misconception of personal value being defined by hyper productivity, competitive consumerism and individual contribution in the years leading up to the Coronavirus pandemic. Characters struggle to perform their various societal roles in the midst of circumstances for which they are unprepared, grappling with how to act in the face of uncertainty. They also wrestle with the increasing commodification of self and time, as the flexibility of working anywhere and anytime morphs into an expectation of working everywhere at all times, even to the extent of economizing social interactions via transactional relationships and accumulating endorsements of personal branding. The pieces experiment with a variety of points of view as they serve the individual stories at hand, investigating what it means to come of age and parent; to live, love and confront death; and ultimately to persist or surrender in late capitalist communities at the turn of the 21st century.Item Restricted The rewilding: a novel(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Barnhart, Hannah, author; Altschul, Andrew, advisor; Ausubel, Ramona, committee member; Niemiec, Rebecca, committee memberThe Rewilding explores the social, political, and environmental history of Yellowstone as a place—the national park, the ecosystem, and the human community—and examines the ways in which that history of place intersects with cultural definitions of nature, cultural values assigned to nature, and human relationships with the natural world. The primary narrative follows the story of a young woman named Wren who, after discovering that her suburban, upper-middle class upbringing has inadequately prepared her for a conventional career path, decides to take a road trip to the west coast after she graduates from college. Along the way, she meets Millie, a woman with whom she falls into an instant infatuation and who convinces her to abandon her original plan and join her for a summer-long stint in Gardiner, Montana. Wren and Millie camp among whitewater rafting guides and start a campaign to save the gray wolves, who are in danger of being removed from the endangered species list. In different and overlapping ways, Millie and Wren struggle to navigate the landscapes of queerness, sexual autonomy, river-running, respect, tolerance, social power and ultimately, belonging. One of the fundamental questions at hand in the novel is: what makes a person (human and nonhuman) fit into a landscape, and how can the presence of that person change the landscape? What is the value of those changes, and who gets to decide?Item Restricted This is how it was(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Pagliari, Nicole, author; Altschul, Andrew, advisor; Ausubel, Ramona, committee member; Chatterjee, Sushmita, committee memberThis Master's thesis is a collection of short stories that interrogate instances of racial aggression against Filipino and Filipino-American women alongside the existential dread of being a young woman and regret and robots in varying quantities and combinations. These stories all share a common goal of analyzing poignant moments of reckoning for their female protagonists of varying physical presentations, socio-economic statuses, and stages of life while also experimenting with speculative elements and voice.