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Cul-de-Sacs
(2014-09-30)
The following eleven stories are a culmination of three years of investigation through creative writing of life at home and family relationships. While the stories are closely related by theme, the form of each piece varies from stories based...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
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 ...
Unnamed Lands
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2013)
experiences, these plays and stories help to flesh out what it means to be moving beyond an “Other” status for the LGBTQIA community....
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 ...
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 ...
You People: A Collection of Stories and Essays
(2015-08-11)
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 ...
Wishful Thinking
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not
being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who
left has decided to come back. What it means ...
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 ...