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PARADISE REVEALED by

Michael Ditusa

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of

Master of Arts

Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton. Florida December 2007

Copyright By: MICHAEL D!T USA 2007

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PARADISE REVEALED by

Michael R. Ditusa This thesis was prepared under the direction of the candidate's thesis advisor, Dr. Jason Schwartz, Department of English, and has been approved by the members of his supervisory committee. It was submitted to the faculty of The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and was accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Fine Arts.

SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE:

Chairman, Department of English

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Dean, The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of AI1s and Letters

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ABSTRACT

Author:

Michael Ditusa

Title:

Paradise Revealed

In s titution:

Florida Atlantic University

Thesis Advisor:

Dr. Jason Schwartz

Degree:

Masters of Fine Arts

Year :

2007

South Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant

themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new

opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of

fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area

and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their

own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living

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lives of quite desperation, while at the same time returning to their jobs in the

service industry night after night smiling. Juxtaposing the faith-based life

against the backdrop of the night life, the characters are all on a journey to

discover their own paradi se the area offers. Sometimes they find it in small

moments they experience. Sometimes they find it on the open road leaving.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Ghosts From Cold. Northeast Plains ......... ..... .......... .... ......................... .. ................. 2 Dreaming Pas t the Libations .................. ........... ... .. .... .. ................................. ... ...... 14 Marginal Notes from John 8 .......... .. ....... ................ ........... .... ..... ...... .. .... .... ........... 67 Riding the Highway of Broken !-leroes........ .... ....... .... ..... .. .. .... ........ ......... ........... 100 Purgatory in Koko mo ............... .. .......... ..... ......... ... ... .. .......... ...... .......................... 115 Ordinary Dove ................ .............. ..... ........ ..... .... .. ................. ........ .... ..... ..... .... ....186 Heroes and Ghosts ..... .... ......... ..... .... .... .... .... ... ....... .. ..... ...... ... .. ....... .. ........ ... .... ....213 Bibliography .............. ..... ..... ....... .. .. ............ .... .. ....... ...... .. .... ..... .......... ....... .... ...... 217

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