That Tall, Skinny, Green Hill

This thesis explores the effects of trauma on relationships with parents, peers, and neighbors. It also looks into plot and scene structures of the fantasy style alongside different world-building techniques. The creative artifact contains excerpts from That Tall, Skinny, Green Hill—a coming-of-age, fantasy, adventure novel. It stars a boy named Cast Klyosov, who looks at the world through a different lens than others, and his mostly even-tempered friend, Dosiner Eldwin Hasden III, who prefers to go by Dox so he can escape comparison to his strict and overbearing grandfather of the same name. Cast Klyosov was only seven-years-old when he first saw the great, green mass of Lalbahadoor’s neck, whose back Cast’s world lives upon, stretching into the clouds above. That Tall, Skinny, Green Hill follows the story of Cast, Dox, and their friends as they try to save their small, kingdom-edge village from the clutches of a malicious creature that has mysteriously appeared in the nearby mountain woods. The boys will learn to face death, come face-to-face with a self-proclaiming god, and work to survive the ongoing traumas they endure