Creative Writing
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/141081
2024-03-29T12:36:50ZBURST : a novel
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214078
BURST : a novel
Wyckoff, Justin Zachary
Think it’s bad now? BURST is a portrait of San Francisco on the brink. Lurid inequality, surging homelessness, and mass evictions have become the norm, while record high tides and whales beaching themselves on the city’s shores by the dozen add more unease. But a recent spate of muggings targeting those who flaunt their gadgets has thrown the city into a whole new level of agitation.
Liam Greber and Charlotte Leung Greber are a successful couple in San Francisco’s tech industry, though they are haunted by what has been happening around them, as well as by the recent termination of an unviable pregnancy Their lives are completely upended, however, when they take in a lost dog, then run into its owner, a homeless youth named Ben.
Meanwhile, Ben’s social worker Geena, a native of the city, has been trying to help people survive, but she’s barely hanging on herself. Yet when things boil over on the streets, Geena, Ben, Liam and Charlotte are all swept into the chaos, and together they must navigate what they each have lost, while navigating the underbelly of a city on edge, a city in crisis—a city about to burst.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZUntitled fiction project
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214074
Untitled fiction project
Wilson, Steven Edward
This Written Creative Work consists of a collection of short stories.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZElijah
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214073
Elijah
Wood, Cynthia Arhart
ELIJAH is a novel about Kealani Charles (Charly) Bancroft, an inventor and computer
science genius, who breaks Silicon Valley’s rules by self-funding her new company and
by keeping predatory investors and intrusive press at bay. When Bancroft’s secure
software and hardware platforms are quickly adopted by government agencies and
Fortune 500 companies, she seems on track to build the “Bechtel of secure
communications” till mutinous employees see a way to. break off a piece of the company
for themselves. In the midst of personal turmoil, Charly realizes that to reclaim her vision
she must destroy her company.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZPanoptes
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214070
Panoptes
Wang, Monica
In a post-apocalyptic world consisting of two warring nations, sprawling across what
used to be the Seleucid Empire, an individual bom of both nations struggles with where
they belong in a world that continues to challenge their very existence. This journey
toward self-discovery questions to what extent can they take ownership of their
accomplishments and forces them to weigh the gifts and the curses that their upbringing
and their background have given them. These big questions are further complicated by
the fact that the people of both nations are engineered by their governments to pursue
certain lifestyles and value certain ideals in an effort by the leadership to pursue utopia
and end the war. Compliance is rewarded, and rebellion is disincentivized, both on a
visceral level. Despite the many challenges they face, the protagonist clings to their
individualism and fights for the opportunity to pursue self-actualization.
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z