The Human Condition: Stories on Love and Loss

Abstract

As both a reader and a writer, I’ve always been interested in the idea that all stories in literature have been told in one way or another before. Yet, authors find a way to engage their audiences and make these stories new by incorporating new and personal factors within the human connections within stories. For my thesis, I chose to explore this idea and focus on one-on-one human connections as the connecting thread within my short story collection.