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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tollbooth at the Edge of the World
(2016)
This thesis in creative writing is a manuscript of poems that examine and deconstruct
death, mortality and the apocalypse. It is the product of extensive research, workshops and
collaboration with the professors and ...
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 ...
Machined Music
(2014)
In this master thesis, the candidate presents his collection of original poems,
accompanied by a critical introduction, which explains his writing and revision process. In
the critical introduction, careful attention is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...