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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
Unnamed Lands
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2013)
This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old ...
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. ...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
The Surviving Parties
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis is a collection of short stories that were written and re-written between my
time as an undergraduate at Columbia College and my time as a Graduate Student at UMKC.
These stories were picked out from many ...
Life underwater
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This collection of short stories examines the different lives of people as they navigate
the strange and confusing nature of their daily lives. There is a particular focus on how the
monotonous can be equally as bizarre ...
The Surviving Parties
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis is a collection of short stories that were written and re-written between my
time as an undergraduate at Columbia College and my time as a Graduate Student at UMKC.
These stories were picked out from many ...
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 ...