My Writing

Here are links to some of my work. I will attempt to keep adding more, both as I write it and as I get around to posting and/or revising earlier efforts:


POETRY

To the Stars, If You Will (Winner of the Life, the Universe, and Everything poetry contest and published in UVU's Warp & Weave speculative fiction journal.)

Knife's Price

The Vampiric Path (revised October 2013)

Taste of Torture (revised October 2013)

Revenge


SCI-FI PROSE

F.R.A.N.: Flash fiction about a Female Reactive Artificial Nitrobot.

Humanitarian: Learn what "humanitarian" means to this alien's diet and what's happening to the missing neighborhood children.

Dropping in for Coffee: a whimsical short story about conquering aliens

HORROR PROSE

Paper or Plastic?: A cashier going on murdering rampages by night for the supposed good of the town. (A new version of this will be posted shortly.)


SCI-FI DRAMA

Dropping in for Coffee: Aliens come to take over the world, but they are enticed by this new, addictive substance. (See more recent short story option above.)

Alien Jesus: Could transporter technology explain Man's greatest mysteries?


NONFICTION

Maximum Entropy: The story of my father's death.

The Haunting of Spring: The time of year that is, to me, all about random death.


LITERARY THEORY

Modesty and Sexuality in PERSEPOLIS: This is an academic paper examining how the forced wearing of veils in Iran relates to attraction, religion, and catering to men.


Empowering the “Other” in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent: A Cultural Material Analysis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder: This is my academic paper on autism that was accepted to be presented at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research.