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Sharp things, or the silver lines are not scars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This novel is the story of Tianne, a twenty-eight-year-old stained glass artist. She works two part-time jobs as a clerk at a stained glass supply ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 008, number 07 (1920 April)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1920)
Graduate School degrees conferred, 1949-1955
(University of Missouri, 1956)
Hell Hath No Fury, Book One of the Divine Dramedy
(2023)
This thesis is the first and partial second draft of my fiction novel which I have written throughout my time as a graduate student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Master of Fine Arts program. This work tells the ...
The first inch of a saguaro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The First Inch of a Saguaro follows three Mexican American teenagers after their father, Luis, is arrested for a drug-related murder in an Arizona border town. During Luis' trial, fourteenyear-old Javier takes to leaving ...
Discomfort
(2014)
The stories in this collection are concerned with the lives of middle class Midwestern people who all feel some sense of discomfort or inability to feel at ease in their lives. Throughout this collection there are examples ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 051, number 2 (1962 October)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1962)
Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the ...
The van Gogh field and other stories
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
No Gods, Only Suffering
(2020)
This short story collection follows one dysfunctional family’s dissolution across central and eastern Kansas. Set against the simultaneously blooming and sickened landscape of rural and college-town Kansas, the Wells family ...
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 ...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Book of Apparitions is an account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, narrated by one of the assassins, Vaso ...
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. ...
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, ...
When trying to return home : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation includes the critical introduction "My Mother is My Homeland: Subversive Representations of the Black Puerto Rican Matriarch" ...
You People: A Collection of Stories and Essays
(2015-08-11)
Kaylene can't drive : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Kaylene Can't Drive: stories is a collection of short fiction about the lives of women, especially women in their twenties, many of whom live in New York City. Running through the stories are recurring themes. In several ...
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 ...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
Missouri alumnus, volume 047, number 01 (1958 September)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1958)