This is a novella concerning modern disillusionment, gender roles, and interpersonal relationships. Leon, Cheryl, and Alex are a family that lives outside of a small Indiana town, near a small stand of trees. Leon is working ...

This thesis is titled after a piece by Rene Magritte. The piece is explained in the title story, but so as not to send you searching: Magritte took a plaster copy of Napoleon's death mask and painted a sky over it. He hung ...

Betterment explores a possible near future in the Southeastern Michigan town of Harwood, fifteen years into recovery from a pandemic caused by the virus H1X1. In Harwood, neglected infrastructure of pipes and waste management ...

This novel is about Jeb, Cam, and an unnamed mind character. Jeb is from Cape Cod, and he's kind of a schlub in his mid-twenties who works a job he doesn't like and drifts through unsatisfying relationships with women. He ...

This thesis consists of a fictional novella generally responding to the traditional conventions of the gothic novel. The story is about Gertrude Means, a recent widow who, upon learning that she is about to lose her house, ...

The stories collected here have been selected from those completed during my time in the MFA program at Colorado State University. In both assembling these works and ordering them, I tried to highlight moments of growth, ...

The Residents is a collage horror novel that follows Robbie, a wilderness ranger in Aspen, as she is mourns the death of her partner, Evie, and is haunted by her in their previously-shared home. Robbie's perspective on ...

These seven short stories explore, through narrative, themes of connection and disconnection, of association and isolation, of love and abandonment, and of the unsinkable human desire to return oneself to an unattainable ...

At its core, this thesis is an exploration of power. Because all literary characters must have the capacity to illuminate the basic human need to transform, I've aimed to give each of environments in which they can, through ...

The title of the following collection, "Have Mercy," comes from the final story, which shares the same title. The characters in the pages that follow share a common thread; they are trying to determine what it means to be ...