Graduation date: 2008This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these individual pieces do formulate and gel based on these themes running throughout. The author’s purpose was to experiment with various narrative voices, ranging anywhere from a calm retrospective storyteller to a raging lunatic, while examining these assorted themes. Though no questions are necessarily answered in this collection, light is at least shed on these themes, with the hope of creating an emotional and psychological sensibility caused from the situations, voices, characterizations, and language being used to describe these issues.