Literature:

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FICTION:

Through the Tortured Air - A story about a man on the run from his own past who breaks down in the desert.  Are the spirits that haunt him the ghosts of his past, or simply tricks of his imagination?

Twrch Trwyth - In the spirit of Grendal, a tale about the boar from the poem "Culhwch and Olwen" from his point of view.

Two Queens - A young man attends a magic show with his aunt in Atlantic City.

Among the Fallen Idols - An unfinished novel that centers on four college students trying to come to terms with their lives on the eve of the second Iraqi war.

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NON FICTION:

Falling from the Sun - a piece about the first time I went skydiving, and the allusions that the act represented to me.

Heredity - In 2003, my father and I went to Miami, FL.  During it we visited the Ernest Hemingway house and I met a polydactyl cat...

Compositional Strategies in "Words for the Dead" - The written portion of my Honors Thesis, it was awarded the mark of "Pass with Distinction" from the WSU Honors College in 2004. It examines my chamber opera, Words for the Dead, and how I used motive and reoccurence to create a deeper level of coherence.

The Use of Silence in "The Mask of Time" - A paper that examines Michael Tippett's mammoth work, The Mask of Time, and how he incorporates silence in a variety of metaphoric and structural ways.