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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 ...
Splitting Lips
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This collection is comprised of short fiction and two essays, dealing with themes of disillusionment, power dynamics, and the messiness of identity. "Ladybug" is about a dependent woman who fakes a pregnancy. "Salt and ...
Poisons of war
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)
My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder,
took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death
kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ...
Turning the doorknob: essays, stories, and poems
(2013)
This collection of essays, stories, and poems is a broad exploration in persona, genre, and
form. The individual human is complex, and this thesis embraces the complexity, even when
the selves presented here, fully factual ...
Creep City and Five Short Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This collection includes one novella and five short stories, focused on young women
and their formative experiences. These stories explore themes of sexuality, latent violence,
changing technology and weird feelings. ...
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: ...
Of oranges and the sea
(2013)
The stories in this collection explore family and friendships. They follow characters for whom the world is not always a perfect fit, fierce in its beauty and its sadness, characters whose best intentions too often fall ...
Feel Better Soon: Collected Short Stories
(2021)
The stories in this collection were written from 2018-2021. They are fictional works designed to explore what happens when the mundane meets the extraordinary. Though the characters and their situations are works of the ...