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Shadows and light - a story collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-06)
We lie and we are lied to. Why then does it shock us when those around us are never what they seem, what they expose for judgment, rather than the whole of what they are. We each seek to assure those around us that we are ...
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 ...
Ozark Superstitions: A Collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This collection of linked short stories explores the storytelling traditions of a
family that continues to deal with the results of a past trauma in their day-to-day lives.
The three members of the Taile family struggle ...
To turn on every light
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This collection of poems focuses on the interior and exterior landscapes of a
speaker in relationship with objects, with others, and with God. The poems seek
to explore these relationships through a symbolic lens, so ...
Art Monster: Stories and a Novella
(2014-08-27)
Monsters external and internal stalk the margins of the stories and novella that make up this collection. Though each selection engages in its own distinct exploration of the monstrous, the pieces hint at a shared question: ...
Praire Madness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
Twelve dead jackrabbits : stories & poems
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
This collection of short fiction and poetry aims to stand as witness to the struggles
of navigating through personal histories and society. The Jackrabbit Series is the
celebration of one woman's life who finds herself ...
Its Golden Boat
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This graduate thesis in creative writing focuses on memory, fear, and growing up. The speaker undergoes a coming-of-age from child to adult, his fears and desires also growing and changing. Its themes and motifs include ...
Ghost Fists
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both
bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun.
Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, ...
Mississippi People
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Mississippi people is a collection of short stories and essays written during the
course of my three years at UMKC. The characters within, even the one's that aren't from
Mississippi themselves, all have a bit of ...
Red Things
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Comprised of a collection of short stories and a full-length screenplay, this thesis is a
demonstration of the author's progress as a writer. The stories are literary realism set in St.
Louis, Missouri, particularly ...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
Things We Once Knew
(2013)
Nostalgia looms large in the stories and essays of this collection. Many of the characters find it hard to reconcile their current selves with who they used to be. A mountain climber loses his nerve and with it his sense ...
Ouroboros
(2019)
I find it boring to write about myself. I think this begins with the fact that I do not consider myself to be an inherently interesting person. This isn’t a bad thing. There is no right way. For those of us non-interesting ...
How We Know Them
(2013)
This multi-genre collection—including fiction, flash fiction, and a play—explores
the roots of connection implied in familial relationships and structures. These works
question—sometimes stepping into the supernatural ...