Fiction

Overview "My thesis film Forever War combines the tropes of the zombie horror and time loop speculative fiction genres as a metaphor for the existential dread of being trapped in a futile situation. The inclusion of talking zombies adds a unique element to the well-known horror trope, creating a moral dilemma for the protagonist and enhancing the audience's anxiety. The motif of video games highlights the contrast between the excitement of war games such as Call of Duty—which are themselves endless...

Overview "Fugue States, a collection of five short stories, comprises a range of literary fiction written during the author's time in Emerson College's Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. This collection, through a combination of first and third-person perspectives, experiments with both narrative retrospection and immediacy, exploring the desires and fears of myriad women. From kudzu-choked Tallahassee to a surreally post-apocalyptic Boston, these stories–humorous, vivid, and...