Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
Holding her own : a novel |
2014 |
1104 |
This creative thesis comprises the first three chapters of Holding Her Own, a novel whichexplores the career of a young warrant officer who trains on the AH-64 Apache helicopter twoyears after the United States Army lifts the ban on women in combat a... |
Walks in the parks |
2015 |
998 |
This creative thesis consists of a collection of six short stories following the main character, Annabelle Jones, through the National Forests and Parks of Western North Carolina as she faces difficult life choices that will not only change life as s... |
A place we can't go |
2015 |
746 |
A Place We Can’t Go To: Stories is a collection of five short stories written in the genre of magical realism. Throughout the five stories, characters move through surreal or dreamlike landscapes, trying to escape, find happiness, or just understand ... |
We hang elephants here: excerpts from a novel |
2017 |
1045 |
In 1916, the town of Erwin, TN was made infamous for hanging the circus elephant Mary for the murder of her caretaker. Ever since, the town has carried around the moniker, “The Town that Hung the Elephant.” Appearing on storefronts, t-shirts, and boo... |
The Siiklagradivad or the song of the great circle |
2023 |
201 |
The Siiklagradivad is a mythopoeia (defined as a narrative genre where the author invents a fictional mythology) setting up the foundational lore of the literary fantasy universe that I have created and am working in. Taking inspiration from other fo... |
Chew: selections from a novel |
2019 |
431 |
In a world where the government poisons the food supply as a way of controlling the population, two women from opposite ends of the economic spectrum form a rebel alliance. Grocery stores are guarded and monitored. Low income families like Meredith, ... |
Carolina Gothic |
2022 |
189 |
This creative thesis will contain several interconnected short stories. They exist in the same literary world populated by a revolving cast of characters. Some of them remain innocent and emotionally progressing, while others are flawed and morally s... |
Singing sleuth : three romantic mysteries |
2010 |
3367 |
The novella collection Singing Sleuth: Three Romantic Mysteries is a vital contribution to the creative arts because it fills an artistic gap. Within creative writing, a myriad of romantic stories and police procedurals exist. However, although genre... |
Judaculla |
2011 |
2436 |
Judaculla is the coming-of-age story of Tim Fletcher, his recently discovered
family, and their interaction with a mystical realm called the Land. Under threat from
both a vengeful Cherokee Totem named Spider and the soul-sucking Shivers, Tim and h... |
How to love yourself and the human race in seventeen days (or less) |
2012 |
4440 |
Presented here for your consideration is a multimedia, genre-bending creative experiment in the form of a comedic travel memoir. Utilizing conventions from several creative genres including memoir, fiction, screenwriting and stand-up comedy, this wor... |