| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| In-between |
2019 |
304 |
Centuries past the end of days, the floating city of Fleet remains the last bastion of life in a world ruined by the emergence of magic. Fleet, and the realm around it, is shaped by the thoughts, intentions, and nightmares of the magicians within, of... |
| As strong as I was |
2011 |
5700 |
The stories in As Strong As I Was involve characters who are struggling with their identities as fathers and daughters as well as their responsibilities to the people they call family.... |
| After the funeral, and other stories |
2013 |
449 |
The four stories in this collection examine the effects on the individual of abandonment and dissolution of the family. The central effect of abandonment shared by all these characters is deep-seated anxiety. Some of these characters are more aware t... |
| Amidst this fading light |
2016 |
249 |
What follows is a novel-in-stories. This hybrid genre is characterized by a text made up of distinct entities that are similar to stories in that they each feature a unique plot and purpose, but each story (especially as one progresses through the wo... |
| For a second time now |
2010 |
1565 |
This collection of stories takes place in North Carolina. It addresses issues of gender identity, sexuality, and loss.... |
| Jewelry sets |
2011 |
703 |
The following thesis is the beginning of a novel about immigration that follows three generations of women from India to America. The short story form is utilized throughout the text.... |
| Deer in the valley |
2016 |
691 |
The five stories in this collection follow the residents of a small, western Virginia town, Rocktown, situated in the Shenandoah Valley.... |
| Four stories |
2017 |
169 |
These four stories explore the spaces between perception and reality, between commitment and estrangement, and between what’s ruined and what remains. The characters have landed at the frayed edges of change, at a place where they could still control... |
| All this splendor: three stories |
2012 |
724 |
These stories explore the vulnerabilities of three distinct characters; each of them young and struggling with the isolation and loneliness that besets us when we feel like we don't "fit in." Like most of us, they want an easy answer, a simple soluti... |
| The girl in the deer & other tales of the pre-apocalypse |
2012 |
321 |
The Rapture. Global Warming. December 21, 2012. Culturally, we're more than a little obsessed with the end of the world. Much of our current literature, film, and television depicts the details of the apocalypse or the post-apocalypse. But what about... |
| The middle of emptiness |
2018 |
144 |
The Middle of Emptiness is a work of fiction following Mary Clarke Patrick, an eighteen-year-old high school graduate, as her family moves into a house in New Orleans’s French Quarter neighborhood before she begins her first year of college. In the s... |
| Country roads |
2018 |
86 |
The following is an excerpt for the novel I wrote during my time in the MFA program. It follows Kat McClellan, a young woman forced to move back home and raise her siblings after her father dies in a mining accident. While Kat readjusts to life in We... |
| The vale of new beginnings |
2018 |
83 |
A collection of stories set in locales both realistic and fantastical, earthbound and virtual. They explore such themes as fatherhood, isolation, and friendship.... |