Date of Award
2016
Call Number
PS3619.P327 W45 2016
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Stonecoast
First Advisor
David Anthony Durham
Keywords
Stonecoast MFA, short stories, human experience, complex characters
Abstract
When Lonesome Rains Come Close Inside is a collection of short written works by Mary Katherine Spain. In “Out Shelby,” we witness the corrosive effects of familial co-dependency and manipulation in rural Kentucky and the struggles of its ten-year old female narrator, Laura Neil, as she tries to protect the one thing she can relate to: the family hound dog; “Take My Hand” is an urban caper that explores the dependency of strangers in the struggle for self-preservation and the comic relief such shenanigans can often yield; “Look for the Octopus” follows a loosely-tethered elementary school teacher named Penelope Richards as she attempts to protect her opus, a school musical she has written and produced; “A Fortune” examines the malady of malaise brought on by too much affluence as we witness the emotional blunting its worried-well main character, Gillian, is forced to subsist on. The collection closes with an excerpt from a novel-in-progress entitled, Fiddler’s Reach.
Recommended Citation
Spain, Mary Katherine MFA, "When Lonesome Rains Come Close Inside" (2016). All Student Scholarship. 291.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/etd/291
