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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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” ...
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: ...
Rabid and Other Stories
(2022)
Rabid and Other Stories is a collection of short prose set in small-town Missouri exploring wealth inequality, family relationships, and toxic masculinity through the lens of rural America. The characters in these thirteen ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...