Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
5-10-2025
Year of Publication
2023
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
English
First Advisor
Andrew Milward
Abstract
vapr is a collection of short stories loosely interconnected via an anthropoid of smoke self-titled the Antimmanuel. vapr is an acronym for VOID & AUGURY & PRESENCE & RESIDUE; there is nothing else, and it is all ephemeral. The Antimmanuel is the guide; it is there with us even when god is not – within capitalism, within religion, within mental health crises, etc. Although very much not a work of Realism, this collection of eight stories grasps for, at the very least, its own author’s understanding of the real – what it feels like to live in middle America in the early 21st century. Ride-share drivers, drone operators, astronauts, sex cults, bimbos, active shooters, drug addicts, moms, dads, and impressionable young men – these are the people of vapr.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2023.170
Recommended Citation
Knollenberg, Henry, "vapr" (2023). Theses and Dissertations--English. 154.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/154
