Last Night in Tights
With a crappy costume, crazy girls, and too much booze, how many ways could things go wrong?
Emily Griffin,
Derek Heiserman,
Ben McFarland,
Abby Stonner,
Drew Van Winkle
One chance, one moment, one opportunity, once in a lifetime. Will you be ready?
Josh Anderson,
Liz Cook,
Bri Cutsforth,
Sarah Grapp,
Dane Riggenbach
Everyone has a secret.
You know you're curious.
Elizabeth Collins,
Heidi McKinley,
Megan McNeill,
Sydnee Stark,
Alyse Weishaar
The Point of Death
No matter the genre, there comes a point when we must pay for our choices
Brittany Harp,
Kim Johnson,
Amanda R. Koch,
A. Manternach,
Nick Williams
The Bar
Where something darker is on tap
Andrew Etheredge,
Jason Hershey,
Mike Reding,
John Showalter,
Frank Singleton
Banking on Reality
Life's too short to take for granted; you never know who you'll meet along the way
Lauren Hosch,
Abraham McNally,
Ben Smith,
Ashlee Streigle,
Bryan VanVeldhuizen
What follows are thematically grouped collections of short stories by students in the University of Northern Iowa's Fall 2007 Beginning Fiction Writing classes. In each collection, writers work with a shared event, theme, or approach. If you have comments on the project as a whole, please click on my name below and let me know. Some of these stories have adult themes or language, so don't say you weren't warned.
Thanks for reading,
Jim O'Loughlin
Sample similar projects by past classes: Spring 2007 Fall 2004 Spring 2004