Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1994 Playing destiny Elizabeth Jo Birmingham Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Birmingham, Elizabeth Jo, "Playing destiny" (1994). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 16228. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/16228 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]. , Playing destiny by Elizabeth J. Bilmingham A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fultillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department: English Major: English (Creative Wliting) Signatures have been redacted for privacy Iowa State University Ames. Iowa 1994 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. 1 CHAPTER 2. 15 CHAPTER 3. 28 CHAPTER 4. 41 CHAPTER 5. 58 CHAPTER 6. 79 CHAPTER 7. 97 CHAPTER 8. 105 1 CHAPTER 1. Linear Kelt walked to campus everyday. To clear his head. He was beginning to feel his home life was, well, less than satisfactory. The old man was impossible. What was the boy? Uncommunicative. How could he know what the boy was? Rohan Bree never said, and anymore information could be neither cajoled nor coerced from him. He had simply become too strong for that Kelt hoped that the boy wouldn't realize he could defy them.