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.

The Man Behind the Man is a novel that explores identity, creativity, and how people come to understand what is important in life. The setting is the future and certain technological advances in the future become important plot and thematic tools for unraveling the mystery of personal identity. This is also a work that deals heavily with country music and how country music speaks to commonalities of the human experience.

A novel written in fulfillment of the requirements of the Masters of Fine Arts degree.

Enter the room with a black contractor bag rolled up. Walk to the center of the room, unroll the contractor bag, shake it as you would to fit it to a garbage can, and pull it over your head. Feel your way to the nearest wall and smooch along it. The bag, as you rub your shoulder along the wall, should naturally begin to twist so that it spins around you as you are walking within it. This will create the illusion that you are twirling, and the bag will begin to replicate skin. If there is external sound, be cognizant of it, and in moments when you sense the sound has halted, you should also halt, remaining pressed against the wall, or the corners of the room, until the sound resumes. Take the time to retreat or advance along the wall as you see fit. When you reach the door, exit the room maintaining the same cadence until the door has fully closed behind you and you are no longer being observed. Ordinal is an exploration of obscene consumption. The images and words consumed can be understood to symbolize the consumption of the body. This piece may register as significant of a sexual act or acts, but is intended to be understood as solitary, selfish consumption in place of something lacking. The substitution of the consumed for that which is unattainable or unknown is an individual desire often carried out privately as a form of grief. The rupture of this privation can be interpreted as the resistance to know or confront the aesthetic truths of our desires. One of the most approachable ways to acknowledge grief is to plagiarize its most powerful symbols or triggers and to make them absurd. I am haunted by the image of a black contractor bag. This body of work takes measure of the grief it inhabits, weighs the constraints and usefulness of this grief as a habitat or environment in which to enact solitude, violence, or ecstasy, and generates its own conclusions.

This is a poetry manuscript that examines the epic form, concrete poetic techniques, and science fiction concepts so as to posit a created world of surfaces.