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Sex and Jesus: Notes from a Pastor's Daughter
(2021)
This thesis is a collection of nonfiction and poetic works that represent the author’s output as a candidate for Master of Fine Arts. These personal essays and poems are interested in intersections and unlikely combinations: ...
Navigation errors
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Navigation Errors is a collection of personal essays that explore the ideas of religious
fundamentalism, humanity’s place in—and relation to—nature, physical and mental
challenge, paradigm shifts, and the mistakes that ...
The Brain is an Iceberg
(2012)
The stories in this collection focus on utilizing formal experimentation in order to illuminate the struggles of characters. For example, the title story focuses a couple that enters a photo booth and leaves with a doomed ...
The Death Of Greater Man
(2013)
While many of the stories in this collection deal with the population and physical
space of the state of Nebraska (both in the current era and in speculation on the state’s
future), every story in the collection deals ...
A Walk Through the Valley of Shadows
(2016)
Magical Realism, religion, illness and death are twisted through this collection of short stories to explore how people deal with the fantasy of belief in a very real world. The non-fiction essay "How an Illness I Don't ...
Confluences
(2022)
This collection of poems, essays, and fictional stories is meant to mirror a confluence of rivers, made navigable by threads—or currents—that weave through and redirect my life.
Some of my life’s water (so far) has been ...
Burning Houses: A Novel
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
When Cat Byers’ mother dies and leaves her and her sister a surprise inheritance of
10 million dollars and 500 acres of oil land, a woman adrift must overcome her unresolved
past and a mysterious stalker to discover ...
The Neighborhood
(2023)
The Neighborhood addresses mental illness and racial identity in a horrific collection of stories that explore what it means to face ourselves and our circumstances every day. As a BIPOC living in a country of unrest and ...
But Rather Becomes
(2013)
This collection of female-driven short fiction explores the ways that girls and
women are victimized, excluded, empowered, misled, or left to their own devices within
contemporary patriarchal American culture. Feminist ...
You seem anxious
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
This collection of stories explores gaps in human communication, the unknowability
of others, and the anxiety that manifests from social experience. Many of the longer
pieces are rooted in the Lake of the Ozarks, a 92-mile ...
Like where you're from is so great
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-19)
The stories in this collection focus on leaving, staying, and coming back to the small town of Buffalo, Missouri, and how those decisions impact the characters who make them.
Three of the stories are centered around Milford ...
Swallowing frogs
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This collection is comprised of short fiction, poems, two essays, and one short script.
The work contained revolves around themes of mental illness, disillusionment, gender
dynamics, and the difficulty of knowing others. ...
American Anxiety: Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This collection of stories largely deals with anxiety felt by people in small-town,
rural America in the twenty-first century. Ranging from an old woman afraid of change
to a veteran returning home to a people’s militia ...
Our End Times
(2021)
In the spirit of novels like The Mothers and The Incendiaries, Our End Times explores the pain of leaving faith communities. Daniel and Ethel are caught up in a sex scandal in their small, Pentecostal church. They leave ...
No Place Like Home
(2015-06-02)
This collection of stories portrays a variety of lives dealing the aftereffects of loss. In “Robert the
Lionheart” a boy seeks the DNA of his parents to recreate them and struggles with what that
might mean. In “Weeds” ...
Work Stories
(2023)
Work Stories is a collection of short fiction inspired by the tales I heard, lived, and witnessed while working construction in rural Missouri. The characters featured in this thesis grapple with mental illness, ignorance, ...
Another Beast Entirely
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This thesis is a collection of works written and rewritten over the course of my time
in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Master of Fine Arts Creative writing program. It
includes short stories, nonfiction ...
Cake for Fighting
(2019)
Although individual freedom is so integral to western ideology, the idea that
culture can supersede an individual’s basic human rights is surprisingly common in the
United States. This is due to another western value: ...
Human Tire Fire
(2016)
I have titled this collection Human Tire Fire because that's the image I picture when I
look back over the period of time in which I created these stories. The tire fire is the signifier I
see for myself. Putrid. ...
Oakaville
(2020)
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, ...