Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Hodgen, Christie, 1974-"
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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: ... -
Assembling the Fragments: A Collection of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Grief and grieving hovers around this essay collection, both the author's grief over losing her mother and also what that loss meant to the other people in her life. An essay about the tragic death of the author's uncle- ... -
The Cherry Orchard
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)Similar to the namesake of this manuscript, Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard, the poems that make up this collection explore loss—loss of home, loss of time, loss of loved ones, loss of self. Some of the poems ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Feel Better Soon: Collected Short Stories
(2021)The stories in this collection were written from 2018-2021. They are fictional works designed to explore what happens when the mundane meets the extraordinary. Though the characters and their situations are works of the ... -
Friction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-10)This work includes short stories of various lengths with a mix of creative non-fiction. -
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 ... -
Ghost Fists
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun. Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, ... -
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 ... -
Life underwater
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)This collection of short stories examines the different lives of people as they navigate the strange and confusing nature of their daily lives. There is a particular focus on how the monotonous can be equally as bizarre ... -
The Medical Record
(2015-07-28)A collection of personal essays, “The Medical Record” is an exploration of my life in medicine. It has three primary goals. First, to portray an accurate account of my training and practice as a female physician, with ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The Nonstory and Other Stories
(2022)The following is a selection of my writing from 2018 to present. I consider the work I have completed during my years at UMKC to be a series of experiments in the short fiction form, and I believe that this thesis is a ... -
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 ... -
On Both Sides - A Novel
(2020)On August 11 and 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia was the site of a rally for Unite the Right, an Alt-Right (neo-Nazi) group. This group sought to further white nationalist ideals and to protest the proposed removal of ... -
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 ... -
Ozark Superstitions: A Collection
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This collection of linked short stories explores the storytelling traditions of a family that continues to deal with the results of a past trauma in their day-to-day lives. The three members of the Taile family struggle ... -
Picture This
(2022)Picture This is a collection of short stories featuring a series of strong female protagonists wrestling with questions of identity and belonging. This collection seeks to explore the tension between faith and doubt, ...