Date of Award
Spring 5-2011
Degree Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Committee Chair
Steven Barthelme
Committee Chair Department
English
Committee Member 2
Charles Sumner
Committee Member 2 Department
English
Committee Member 3
James Robison
Abstract
These are short stories where people who don't have very much lose some of what they have. This is a collection of fairy tales, magic realism, surrealism, and other kinds of wonder. In one, a man lives in beer cans until a little girl steals them to recycle. In another, a contractor in the Middle East finds a magical stone that makes him bulletproof, but he dies because he won' t hear the stone's story. In others, a strange man puts an entire town into cages and rolls them away, a woman rules an oyster bar, a beautiful inventor creates new ears from parts ordered off Ebay. A boy meets and loses the love of his life, a young singer leaves her city, a father sells his son's truck, and a man sleeps with his sister. Most of these stories are sad.
Copyright
2011, Micah Dean Hicks
Recommended Citation
Hicks, Micah Dean, "Electricity and Other Dreams" (2011). Master's Theses. 540.
https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/540