Oakaville
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This collection is comprised of short stories and flash fiction, all revolving around the same fictional town of Oakaville, KS, dealing with the themes of home, nostalgia, love, coming of age, family dysfunction, disillusionment, and disconnection. “Zenith” is about a group of kids who get high and mess around on train tracks, and the locomotive engineer who was unlucky enough to have been passing through. “The Batman of Perry County” showcases an absurd obsession over a false hero, but a hero the town desperately needs. “Bowtie” follows a boy finally connecting with his father, and his crush across the street. In “127 Feet,” a man has a near-death experience after being fired from his job, and an omniscient narrator gives a unique perspective on all of it. In “Wayward Women,” a daughter discovers she doesn’t know her dying mother as well as she thought she did.
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Welfare check -- 127 feet -- Trying -- The Roto Rooter guy fixes my toilet -- Bowtie -- Zenith -- Counting chickenhawks -- The batman of Perry County -- Signals -- Back home -- Waiting on trains -- Following broken trails -- All that ice -- Wayward women -- Elvis Presley performs miracles
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M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts)