Short stories, feature pieces, and fiction

Mad Men & Misogyny

A contextual analysis into Mad Men's famous episode "The Wheel." How does this episode portray women and existing stereotypes within...

A Car Crash, Grey's Anatomy, & the Power of Neuroplasticity

Recovering from a brain injury as a teenager has lead 21-year old college student Casey Waggett to pursue a career in medicine. (Profile...

2020 Graduates Face Uncertainty with Hope

Fear, regret, and a glimmer of hope: What does life look like for 2020 graduates? (Article for News Writing Course, GWU, 2020) WASHINGTON...

A House That's No Longer A Home

My childhood home was recently sold, and I struggled to watch the walls and floorboards of youth ripped away along with the memories that...

Some Distant Memory: A Thread of Trauma

Does history, in fact, repeat itself? I look at my own family's history and how they survived the Holocaust as it relates to the last...

Memories of a Future

One Woman's tales from the pandemic year - remembered seven years later as life continues on. (Short Story For Fiction Writing Course,...

The Existential Guinea Pig

What is the meaning of life? To run endlessly on a wheel that leads to nowhere, and piss where I sleep and shit where I eat? Are we all...

The Second Wave

Does the end of the world occur with a series of overlooked events, or in one swift wave wiping out civilization? In either case - what...

United States of Streaming (Finding the Best Service for the Best Price)

*Piece from Feature Writing course (GWU, 2021) When I moved into my apartment in DC early in September, the first thing I noticed was...

The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale

Final Paper for Grimm's Fairytale College Course, GWU (2017) A little over two centuries ago, the Grimm Brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob,...

The Changing Nature of Saturday Night Live: A Forty Year Legacy

Final Project for Research Methods, GWU 2019 Abstract The Goal of my research is to assess changing themes within the content of Saturday...