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Discomfort
(2014)
The stories in this collection are concerned with the lives of middle class Midwestern people who all feel some sense of discomfort or inability to feel at ease in their lives. Throughout this collection there are examples ...
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 ...
Sex and Jesus: Notes from a Pastor's Daughter
(2021)
up a pastor’s daughter was generally positive, my adult life has been a process of questioning what I know and opening up to the reality that I do not have all the answers. I believe my thesis, in both form and content, reflects this uncertainty...
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” ...
Forced Perspective
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This collection of eleven short stories explores the constant struggle between our
expectations for our own lives and our responsibilities to others, as well as the unexpected
instances of suffering that have irrevocable ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sublime Underdogs
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
It is my hope that this collection of stories, Sublime Underdogs, uncovers the
beauty and the pain in unique aspects of the human experience: a lonely young woman
who is terrified of getting cancer, for instance, or a ...