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"Desecration"149 views
Author
Zaklikowski, Sophia, Creative Writing - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Moffett, Kevin , Creative Writing, University of Virginia
Abstract
A collection of short stories that explore the sublimation of place and body, the uncanny, and femininity. In "Desecration", a group of young girls desecrate a man's property and are driven into backlands as punishment. In "Pincher's Hole", a pregnant woman reckons with the supposed suicide and disappearance of her husband into an abyssal cave diving system. "Conservation of Energy" is a roving narrative tracking the webbed stories of a family resisting the construction of a pipeline through their land in the midst of grieving the loss of a child.
Zaklikowski, Sophia. "Desecration". University of Virginia, Creative Writing - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MFA (Master of Fine Arts), 2024-04-29, https://doi.org/10.18130/41jv-j018.
