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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 ...
Friction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-10)
This work includes short stories of various lengths with a mix of creative non-fiction.
Shadows and light - a story collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-06)
We lie and we are lied to. Why then does it shock us when those around us are never what they seem, what they expose for judgment, rather than the whole of what they are. We each seek to assure those around us that we are ...
Cushioned by a wave
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-05-13)
This book of poems investigates the speaker's relationships with her family and
lovers, and how these experiences define her sense of direction and the world she inhabits.
Recurring themes of miscommunication, sex, and ...
A geography of the heart
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
This collection of short fiction and creative nonfiction explores how we navigate our most
intimate and challenging personal relationships, how we use art and writing to try to
understand and articulate the most ineffable ...
Like where you're from is so great
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-19)
The stories in this collection focus on leaving, staying, and coming back to the small town of Buffalo, Missouri, and how those decisions impact the characters who make them.
Three of the stories are centered around Milford ...
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 ...
Several ways of seeing
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-12)
The following eleven stories represent what I believe to be the strongest creative output
from my three years of graduate study and creative writing at the University of Missouri -
Kansas City. In order to reflect my ...
The Fiction We Make Between Us
(2013)
This manuscript contains two sections, “Quiet Project” and “Notes for a Memoir,”
each of which could later expand into a separate chapbook, or a section of a book, of
poems.
In the first section, “Quiet Project”, the ...
Falsetto With Sour Cherries
(2013)
In this master thesis, the candidate presents her collection of
original poems, accompanied by a critical introduction, which
explains her writing and revision process. In the critical
introduction, careful attention ...
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 ...
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 ...
How We Know Them
(2013)
This multi-genre collection—including fiction, flash fiction, and a play—explores
the roots of connection implied in familial relationships and structures. These works
question—sometimes stepping into the supernatural ...
Family traditions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
Family Traditions tells the story of young adults who have grown up as Wiccans. Because Wicca remains a new and small religion, the vast majority of its followers converted from Christianity or other faiths, and the number ...
Life without my head
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-24)
This book of poems understands the human body as artifice, a device to
broadcast and receive pain, even as it promises great pleasure. Here, this device
is mostly female: a hyper-sexualized screensaver for a voyeuristic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pussycat rampage
(2013)
Cinnamon's job for rural crime-boss Big Poppa usually
calls for her to break the law, not surrender to it. But when
Big Poppa's son Bobby-Tommy badly beats a young man in a
nearby town that's just what she's asked to ...