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SEEDS OF EVIL
(2024-05-06)
Seeds of Evil is the story of 12-year-old Max Peters. Max is a typical 6th grader. He’s shy around girls and is a big horror fan: books, movies, comics, you name it. His favorite holiday is Halloween. Most importantly, ...
Les Oreilles
(2024-05-08)
This Creative Writing and Literature thesis presents Part I (100 pages) of my literary novel Les Oreilles, a work of Canadian Québécois historical fiction. In 1940s rural Quebec, the Eastern townships are divided as the ...
Bom Sal
(2024-05-13)
The food memoir Bom Sal focuses on popular Cape Verdean dishes as a way to
explore mother and daughter relationships while uncovering the struggle of identity as a
Cape Verdean American. The phrase “bom sal” is commonly ...
Searching for our Soul: An American Road Odyssey
(2024-05-14)
Abstract
Searching for Our Soul: An American Road Odyssey is part three of a memoir written over eighteen months. The narratives take place during the COVID-19 pandemic from September of 2020 to April of 2022. The third ...
The Things We Forget
(2024-05-14)
Soon after the first anniversary of his father’s suicide, 17-year-old Charlie Wyatt is admitted to Haven House, a group home for teens suffering with PTSD. On his journey to heal from his mentally debilitating symptoms, ...
Starkeeper, a Novel Excerpt
(2023-11-13)
Starkeeper is thematically concerned with coming to terms with one’s grief following the loss of a parental figure, and with feelings of isolation from one’s peers when asked to take on additional responsibilities prescribed ...
Mockingbird
(2023-12-11)
Mockingbird is a feature length screenplay that follows the story of a 38-year-old female protagonist in search of the truth surrounding an event in her childhood. The film explores themes of friendship, trauma, and memory, ...
The Walls of Winchester Abbey
(2024-05-14)
After her mother’s death, Austin native Monroe Morales is moved to England to attend an all-girls, Catholic boarding school. In her late-night wanderings of the old castle, she finds her connection to ‘home’ in her midnight ...
The Messenger
(2024-05-13)
This book tells the story of the United Parcel Service, a company born out of hard work and determination, from its humble beginnings in 1907 to becoming a household name and symbol of American ingenuity. Told from the ...
Miss Fanny Jean Rides the Escalator: Girls, Folklore, and Modernity
(2024-05-14)
Each tale retains one foot in folklore and one foot in modern introspective essay.
This is the new southern woman, who both embraces and diverges from her roots to make
her own way. These autofiction pieces center around ...