5 Works in Norman Bowker
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How to Tell a True Love Story by shurishen
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
22 May 2025
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War wasn’t all bad. In between the smell of death and blood, there was still two soldiers, shining in the company of each other.
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A Different Face (I could save you this time) by Ughhhhhhhhh
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
23 Jun 2023
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This was written for a friend of mine, so I hope you enjoy. This is also my first ever published work. Please be kind. Also, please ignore the title, I'm absolute shit at making titles.
Basically, what if instead of Norman not being able to save Kiowa, he managed to get him out of the mud?
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Ten years later at the bar by misterluckystrikes
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
26 Apr 2022
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The After-Prayer / Addendum by cheekslikewine
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
29 Jul 2021
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Boy. Body. Disciple. Dancer. Soldier. Saint.
Creek-clear heart, upturned palms, beloved mind: Kiowa, who were you? And, God, what if?
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Stranger Than Fiction: Metafictional Elements of The Things They Carried by 100indecisions
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
22 Apr 2008
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Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a strange sort of book, at once a novel and a collection of stories, autofiction and complete make-believe, fiction and fact. It contains just barely too much fact to pass as pure storytelling, just barely too much fiction to qualify as memoir that plays a little fast and loose with the details. The book does not quite fit the standard image of metafiction, if such a thing exists, with its inherent experimental nature and oddities that insist the reader take it at something more or less than face value. At the same time, it includes enough of those elements—the recursive sense of writing about writing—to reward a study of what makes its stories something very like metafiction.
Written for an upper-level undergraduate class in English literature. Posted in 2025.
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- Part 22 of Fandom non-fiction
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