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A Walk Through the Valley of Shadows
(2016)
question of sacrifice in the story "In the Year of Our Lord." The next story, "Ghost Boy in the Land of the Queens," brings the question of gender and existence into a character's world of death. "The True Story of Cripple-Boy Who Was Probably Named Billy...
Like where you're from is so great
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-19)
to leave Buffalo at 18, when he comes back at 19 during a summer away from college, and finally when he moves back for good at 22. Some of the stories deal with the economic hardships in a town too small to attract jobs, but big enough that local businesses...
Confluences
(2022)
of it is clear. To use a bit more concretion, as they say, the currents (and undercurrents) presented here include: a history of family and stepfamily; addiction and mental illness as they are passed down from woman to woman; the judgment of ex...
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 ...
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 relationship; the entire...
Our End Times
(2021)
In the spirit of novels like The Mothers and The Incendiaries, Our End Times explores the pain of leaving faith communities. Daniel and Ethel are caught up in a sex scandal in their small, Pentecostal church. They leave for Kansas City, Ethel...
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 ...
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 of purpose. A woman...
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 ...
Work Stories
(2023)
Work Stories is a collection of short fiction inspired by the tales I heard, lived, and witnessed while working construction in rural Missouri. The characters featured in this thesis grapple with mental illness, ignorance, trauma, abuse...
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. ...
Another Beast Entirely
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This thesis is a collection of works written and rewritten over the course of my time
in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Master of Fine Arts Creative writing program. It
includes short stories, nonfiction ...
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” ...
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. ...
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 ...