Browsing Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Creative Writing and Media Arts (UMKC)"
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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 ... -
Mississippi People
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Mississippi people is a collection of short stories and essays written during the course of my three years at UMKC. The characters within, even the one's that aren't from Mississippi themselves, all have a bit of ... -
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. ... -
Navigation errors
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Navigation Errors is a collection of personal essays that explore the ideas of religious fundamentalism, humanity’s place in—and relation to—nature, physical and mental challenge, paradigm shifts, and the mistakes that ... -
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 ... -
No Place Like Home
(2015-06-02)This collection of stories portrays a variety of lives dealing the aftereffects of loss. In “Robert the Lionheart” a boy seeks the DNA of his parents to recreate them and struggles with what that might mean. In “Weeds” ... -
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 ... -
Oakaville
(2020)This collection is comprised of short stories and flash fiction, all revolving around the same fictional town of Oakaville, KS, dealing with the themes of home, nostalgia, love, coming of age, family dysfunction, ... -
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 ... -
On Earth, As It Is
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)This manuscript of poems addresses the collisions of the body—what is often meant when we say intersectionality. These poems take on the politics of race, religion, gender, and history and employ the filters of persona, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Poisons of war
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ... -
Praire Madness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial ... -
Pro-Black Prosody
(2020)This thesis speaks to the triumphs and tragedies of the Black experience. It attempts to look at Blackness through the lens of my combined experiences as a spoken word artist, a student in the University of Missouri-Kansas ... -
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 ... -
Rabid and Other Stories
(2022)Rabid and Other Stories is a collection of short prose set in small-town Missouri exploring wealth inequality, family relationships, and toxic masculinity through the lens of rural America. The characters in these thirteen ... -
Red Things
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Comprised of a collection of short stories and a full-length screenplay, this thesis is a demonstration of the author's progress as a writer. The stories are literary realism set in St. Louis, Missouri, particularly ...