University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Stonecoast MFA Student Scholarship 2020 A Sky Too Close to the Ground: Stories Jessica Koch University of Southern Maine,
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[email protected]. A Sky Too Close to the Ground: Stories A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQTIIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS UNTVERSITY OF SOT]'TIIERN MAINE STONECOAST MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING BY Jessica Koch 2020 THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE STONECOAST MFA IN CREATIVE WzuTING May 20,2020 We hereby recommend that the thesis of Jessica Koch entitled A Slq) Too Close to the Ground: Stories be accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts Advisor To Buckell CV"laßrø. r/""¿ Reader PtizlUeth Hand Director Ju slng Accepted 2k Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Adam-Max Tuchinsky ll Abstract A Slçy Too Close to the Ground: Stories is a collection of speculative fiction short stories that engage with the theme of lost and found connections to the self and to others. This collection explores grief, heartbreak, joy, closureo and madness through the eyes of womeq men, children, and animals in settings from the fantastic to the mundane.