University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Theses UMSL Graduate Works 11-27-2018 Gone To Ground Brian Blair
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[email protected]. Gone to Ground: Stories Brian A. Blair B.A. English, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002 A Thesis Submitted to The Graduate School at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Fine-Arts in Creative Writing December 2018 Advisory Committee John Dalton, MFA Chairperson Dr. Minsoo Kang, Ph.D. Mary Troy, MFA 1 Abstract Gone to Ground is a collection of short stories that explores the possibilities beyond the edge of the everyday. They are an attempt to peek beyond the imaginary boundaries we erect for ourselves in the name of danger or the unknown. Each story is an opportunity to see our own familiar humanity in others, no matter the accidents of fortune that separate us. Though the stories in Gone to Ground often touch the surreal or the magical, they are firmly rooted in what could be out there, on the other side of our walls, whether real or imagined. These are stories that resist telling the reader where they end, but where they may begin again.