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Welcome Home

Bellman, Michelle Renae
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616603316507065

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2021, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Fiction.
In this short story collection, Welcome Home, I explore what it means to be lonely, an outsider, and someone searching for their place in the world. My characters are complex men and women who struggle with grief, heartbreak, and a disconnection from their own mind and body. These characters consider themselves the NPCs in the lives of main characters, who shape, affect, or harm them. We see them grow over the course of these stories and learn to find their voices. They are not in the in-group, but outsiders in more ways than one. In many of these stories, I allow my characters to be angry. They feel like real people because they are real people. Despite run-ins with an alien, a virtual reality device that allows you to explore your literal memories, or a cult to Neil Armstrong, theses stories are grounded in the fact that they are centered around human beings with real struggles.
Jackson Bliss (Committee Chair)
Lawrence Coates (Committee Member)
153 p.
Fine Arts
Fiction; story collection; flash fiction

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  • Bellman, M. R. (2021). Welcome Home [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616603316507065

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bellman, Michelle. Welcome Home . 2021. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616603316507065.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bellman, Michelle. "Welcome Home ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616603316507065

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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