This is a collection of original poetry.

This thesis consists of sixty-nine short-shorts and one novella written during my time in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.

The purpose of my study has been to produce a book of poetry.

This is a collection of stories written in the three years that the author attended graduate school for creative writing at North Carolina State University.

Gravity Hill is a collection of poetry.

A collection of linked short stories written in fulfillment of the requirements of the Masters of Fine Arts degree.

In 1893, Sabine Lavecque attends to her dying mother and is asked to perform a final task. She must take a set of tarot cards and a collection of stories to the children of Andronicus Duman, who are working magicians in Paris. Sabine reluctantly complies to find her life turned upside down in an attempt to find four hidden books of magic that hold the power of the four elements.

"Adrift" is a story of love and aspirations equally complicated by the traditional order of the old and the unchecked ambitions of the modern India. For two years a suitable bridegroom is sought for Malati but rumor runs thick in her village, Jharpada, that she is unmarriable because of her poor looks. Because of a childhood prophecy Somu believes that one day he will become important and rich and he is not prepared to settle for anything less when an opportunity for windfall arises in his town, Palleri. As their fates get inevitably entangled in other peopleâs deceits, political corruption, a financial scam, and the promise of a controversial bridge between Jharpada and Palleri, the two discovers that their personal desires are only secondary to the societyâs expectations.

In a remote wilderness fort, a caravan is attacked by a mysterious creature, and the attack is a spark that ignites the tenuous social fabric of the Vigil. Will Mikolas, the leader of the Vigil, reassert command of himself and his followers in the wake of the tragedy, or will Pelios, the fortâs religious leader and a man who shares a troubled past with the archon, assume control? Has the time come for Gallen, the Vigilâs lone hero, to prove his worth, and what of the Vigilâs restless underclass, led in part by the laconic hunter Baruch? And what of Mikolasâs estranged son Aesynn, a village outcast, and his best friend Jiri, a feckless rake who is suddenly confronted by problems far beyond any he has ever faced? The decisions these people make will have a dramatic effect, not only on their small community, but on the larger world beyond the Vigilâs high wooden walls.

Cicatrice is a collection of poetry.