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Cyclorama: a Collection of Short Fiction and Poetry About the Lives of Women Kata O'bannon Alvidrez Iowa State University Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1999 Cyclorama: a collection of short fiction and poetry about the lives of women Kata O'Bannon Alvidrez Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Fiction Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation O'Bannon Alvidrez, Kata, "Cyclorama: a collection of short fiction and poetry about the lives of women" (1999). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 292. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/292 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cyclorama: a collection of short fiction and poetry about the lives of women by Kata O'Bannon Alvidrez A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: English (Creative Writing) Major Professor: Debra Marquart Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1999 Copyright© Kata O'Bannon Alvidrez, 1999. All rights reserved. ii Graduate College Iowa State University This is to certify that the Master's thesis of Kata O'Bannon Alvidrez has met the thesis requirements of Iowa State University Committee Member Committee Member Major Professor For the Major Program For the Graduate College ll1 Dedication I would like to thank my daughter, Maureen Veronica Alvidrez, for her limitless patience and for believing in me even when it meant fending for herself-making her own dinner, begging friends for rides, watching movies alone down in the basement. It's not an easy life to have one parent, much less one who is always sitting at the computer saying, "Not now, honey." Still, it was always Maureen's strength of character and independent spirit that inspired me to write about these women, the troubled and angry women I knew she would never become. -----------------------------·---- IV TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 1 INSTRUCTION MANUALS ................................................................................................................ 4 Epitaph for One Who Should Be Dead But Lives in California ............................................................ 5 But We Were the Ones Who Showed Him Their Nest .......................................................................... 6 Sister Mary Teresa, Slide Show Barker ................................................................................................. 7 Blood Sisters ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Birth Control ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Street Lessons ...................................................................................................................................... 13 Cyclorama ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Only Blue Songs to Sing ...................................................................................................................... 27 Bad Blood Breeds ................................................................................................................................ 30 HAPPILY EVER AFTER .................................................................................................................... 35 Guilty ................................................................................................................................................... 36 In a Perfect World ................................................................................................................................ 38 Until Death ........................................................................................................................................... 41 American Rigby ................................................................................................................................... 46 Women's Work .................................................................................................................................... 50 Civil Service ......................................................................................................................................... 54 The Fine Family ................................................................................................................................... 58 The Mind of the Beholder .................................................................................................................... 62 A Fair Exchange ................................................................................................................................... 70 Misdemeanor, 1977 .............................................................................................................................. 72 PostPartum Parting .............................................................................................................................. 74 WELL-TRAVELED ROADS .............................................................................................................. 78 Eating Alone ........................................................................................................................................ 79 Image ................................................................................................................................................... 81 Willing Travesties ................................................................................................................................ 82 Life Changes ........................................................................................................................................ 83 The Promise ofTampax™, Massengil™, and the Cross Your Heart Bra™ ....................................... 87 Gravitational Release ........................................................................................................................... 90 Goldbrickers ......................................................................................................................................... 92 Celebration ........................................................................................................................................... 96 The First Bite ....................................................................................................................................... 98 Leaving ............................................................................................................................................... 101 The Garden ......................................................................................................................................... 103 Whistle Stop ....................................................................................................................................... I 05 Sweet Sundaes of Love ...................................................................................................................... 106 Number 22 .......................................................................................................................................... 108 Going Postal....................................................................................................................................... 111 v Bedtime Story .................................................................................................................................... 113 The Right Thing to Say ...................................................................................................................... 121 Happy Middles ................................................................................................................................... 130 And an Asteroid Came Crashing to the Earth .................................................................................... 134 VI Acknowledgements I would like to my committee members, Debra Marquart, Brenda Daly, and Jill Bystydzienski for their support in the final weeks of my thesis preparation. Their valued feedback and suggestions made it possible for me to complete this body of work. They are each strong women who model the power of women in today's society. Thank you to Debra for her careful attention in workshops and in review, which allowed me to see flaws in plot and point of view that I could no longer identify after too many readings and too many drafts. Thank you to Brenda for her remarkable emotional support which allowed me to maintain my vision, a vision of a better world for women who are empowered by language to change their lives and create new paths for women to wander in their search for love and meaning. And thank you to Jill, who agreed, not having any idea what she was getting into, to participate on my committee with only a couple of weeks to prepare only because she is as concerned with women's stories as I am. Thank you also to Iowa State
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