My Impending Adulthood: Quarterlife Crisis and Beyond is a collection of personal essays that chronicles the time before, during and shortly after the narrator's quarterlife crisis. The further removed from childhood she grows, the more the narrator clings to aspects of her youth she fears she'll lose when she resigns to enter the adult word-a place she believes is stifling and terrifying. Each essay in this collection serves as a lens through which the adult world is examined, admired, feared, avoided and misunderstood as the narrator works to accept that she must grow up, despite nearly three decades of persistent resistance. The essays illustrate ways in which innocence is incrementally lost, while at the same time celebrating ways in which portions of this innocence is preserved and appreciated. This collection aspires to give a voice to readers in their twenties whose struggles are often ignored by the literary world.

This novel is the first-person narrative of an underachieving twenty-eight-year-old journalist who convinces himself that he can find fulfillment by climbing the Matterhorn, a dream he once shared with his older, idolized brother, who died before they could achieve it. Forsaking a marriage-minded girlfriend and fledgling sports reporting career in California, Stanley "Rabbit” Goodman decides to sell or abandon everything he owns that can't fit into a backpack, head to Europe, find his brother's former climbing partner and scale the mountain, or die trying. By blending humor with mysticism and action with introspection, Rabbit's entertaining tale poignantly transcends his personal experiences to illustrate the universal human conflicts that arise when one attempts to turn a dream into reality.

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In 7 composite stories--shifting from the roads of Southern Colorado neighborhoods, the fields and unpaved roads of Northern New Mexico, and the streets of Culver City, California--Penitence follows Relles Ortiz and the bleak peripheral existence of the voiceless suburban people living in disorder and disorientation within the harshness of their common American surroundings and circumstances. Relles' story is told in a fragmented and laconic style as Relles explores the flashes of his violent past, his severed relationships as well as confronting his stubborn addictive personality. In "Blues Skies Under Culver City," Relles recounts his troubled marriage and relationship with his daughter after years lost in the Army serving in Macedonia. In "Return to Cacaville" we learn that Relles' problems are perhaps greater than himself as they seem to be patterned by his familial tree. "Backyard Marriage" recounts the marriage of Relles' mother and father from the perspective of his Uncle Lolo and the neighborhood priest, Father Dwyer. In "Hamburgers in Macedonia," Relles recounts the main source of his inner demons--a tragic tour through Bosnia and Northern Macedonia. "Penance" and "Laundromat Story" both beg the question: are individuals 'fucked up' or are they simply 'fuck-ups.' In the "Highland," Relles learns that his actions and decisions perhaps can rise above his weighted thoughts and relentless memories. Overall, these stories mark this author's journey from honest journaling to honest story-telling and crafting of fiction. / Graduation date: 2004

A young American woman goes to China looking for quiet and respite from campus activism but finds herself drawn into a love triangle with two Chinese dissidents. Through these relationships she becomes involved in the explosive demonstrations at Tiananmen Square and her life will never be the same.

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A collection of short stories.

Poetry manuscript

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Debris: stories, focuses on families and people who are outsiders in a small town in the south. A flood happens and washes the town away along with many of the character's dreams and homes and love.