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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Mental illness debilitates the afflicted and impacts friends and family members.
The collage of scenes in this memoir reveal the ways family members developed
survival strategies and coping mechanisms to manic depression. ...
Opus Ignotum
(2022)
“Vocibus concide,” Ennius commanded, in the single line of an otherwise lost work preserved in Varro’s De lingua latina: “With words destroy him.” Not even Ennius’ context did Varro record, only the imperative that an ...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
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 ...
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: ...
Ouroboros
(2019)
I find it boring to write about myself. I think this begins with the fact that I do not consider myself to be an inherently interesting person. This isn’t a bad thing. There is no right way. For those of us non-interesting ...