I'm fresh out of Grad school and ready to break back into the writing scene. My studies have taken me everywhere from Lynchburg to Ouagadougou, to Paris and Bowling Green, to name a few. I've just moved back to my native Massachusetts and I'm eager to get started as a full-time writer. I know that the journey is a tough one, but I'm ready for the challenge.

I'm trilingual (English, French, Italian) with a B.A. in Communication, a B.A. in French and an M.A. in French. I received my B.A.s from the college formerly known as Randolph-Macon Woman's (now known as Randolph College) and Bowling Green State University for graduate studies.

But, I'm not just a brain. I am an avid sports fan and athlete. My track record includes, but is not limited to, soccer, basketball, softball, skiing, and volleyball, both indoor and beach. Basically if it's a sport, I'll play it. Due to my status as athlete, I feel as though it has enhanced my view of the mythic side of sports as well.

In my days as a co-ed, I wrote for my school newspaper, "The Sundial" where I also worked as a columnist and co-editor, "The Auburn News" under the title of intern and columnist, "The Worcester Telegram and Gazette" as a local reporter and finally, "La Nouvelle Republique" where I experienced the French take on journalism.

I'm also an academic writer. As a undergraduate and graduate I focused on topics ranging from the semiological study of contemporary French couture and a patriotic deconstruction of American Vogue to the semiology of Juliette Binoche's international star image to the nature of programmatic protagonists of cult film.

My passion is ...

learning, education, reading, writing, painting, sketching, traveling, politics (I'm a Renaissance Woman)

I know too much about ...

useless bits of information

My parents always told me ...

toughen up

My childhood ambition ...

to travel

My favorite memory ...

walking outside Webb Hall and passing a brilliant panorama of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the fall to get to class and get learning.

Why I write ...

so I can live

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading: sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs by Chuck Klosterman/watching: The Edukators directed by Hans Weingartner/listening to: Favourite Worst Nightmare by the Arctic Monkeys

My first job ...

scooping ice cream at the Dairy Haus

My best moment ...

is still to come (who wants to peak early?)

My inspiration ...

life

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Dark stories

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Daytime Sleepwalker

"Breakfast would be nice."
"It would."
"Bu-"
"Here's a bowl. I'll get some raisin bran. Sorry it's not Total."
As a cadaver, lifeless and lonely in a refrigerated morgue, she sits on their bed, her new solitary confinement division. Tim arrives with the cereal.
"Take it, Carmen. I said I was sorry."
"I know, it's OK," she said faintly. "Tim, I'm actually not that hungry. Here." She returns his thoughtful, but lacking bowl of raisin bran. Instead she moves to the couch and glosse...

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