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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...
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 ...
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 stories navigate a...
Sex and Jesus: Notes from a Pastor's Daughter
(2021)
and feminism through a progressive Christian lens; the complicated relationship between body, health, and body image. The goal in many of these pieces is to challenge the American conception of both Christianity and Jesus—who we think he is, or was, and what he...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Cake for Fighting
(2019)
Although individual freedom is so integral to western ideology, the idea that
culture can supersede an individual’s basic human rights is surprisingly common in the
United States. This is due to another western value: ...
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 ...
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 ...