"Dead Wood" and Other Stories

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Author
SHARP-O'CONNOR, Colin
Keyword
First Reader Aaron Poochigian
Senior Project
Semester Spring 2020
Readers/Advisors
Poochigian, Aaron
Term and Year
Spring 2020
Date Published
2020

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/13512
Abstract
My senior project consists of three short stories written during my junior year of college, although they’re the second or third rewrites of earlier, similar pieces going back to my freshman year. The first piece is set in the Taughannock gorge trails on the southwestern side of Cayuga lake, a place I’ve grown up hiking and exploring since I was a kid; the second in the Cornell University woods a halfmile up the road from my house, very close to where I learned to hunt; the third in one of the many abandoned or otherwise derelict plots of farmland in the rural outskirts of Tompkins County. Although I didn’t write them as a set, all three are loosely connected by motifs of pride and, necessarily, shame — causing the death of a friend, needlessly killing in a hunt, burning down your childhood home — as well as their physical proximity.
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