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Written in the second person point-of-view, Always is a creepy, contemporary answer to Nikos Kavvadias' 'A Knife'. It is you who finds the cursed knife, but, unlike the protagonist of Kavvadias' poem, no one is there to warn you about taking it home.
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Life-Changers is told in short scenes, all related to the other in some way, that each takes on a new point-of-view character who faces a moment that changes their life--some for the better, but some for the worse. It explores what it means to be human and all the different ways we experience the world.
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Irmgard and Horst escaped the chaos of post-WWI Germany to settle in the safety of a town on the other side of the world. In this award winning short story, they react to the news that Adolf Hitler has come to power in their beloved home country.
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Most people only get one short at dying; Marisa never expected to be the exception.
I have written essays on a wide varity of subjects that often come to inspire or influence my fictional work in some way.
ESSAY: King Arthur, Man or Myth?
ESSAY: Renaissance Humanism Ideology in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
ESSAY: The Inherent Repetition in Creative Writing
ESSAY: My Creative Process in the Writing of Short Story Always
ESSAY: Examining Male Prostitution in Victorian England
ESSAY: Religion and Utilitarianism in R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island