After we lost the wind

Graduation date: 2010My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences of people trying to make sense of their most private, vulnerable selves, as they try to live with those selves; in spite of the necessity of living outside those selves and with others. Most of these stories are non-linear, focusing more on a particular sensibility than movement