Hybrid Existence: Eastern and Western Living comprises of poetry and provides a going inward critical introduction. The poetry collection comprises in three sections: the inner self process, items to be grateful for, and contribution through purpose. . . .

Last fall I tried to assemble a comprehensive, fragmented recollection of all the homes I've lived in from childhood to the present day (well over 20, eight American states, two countries). This essay was meant as a response to Gaston Bachelard's The . . .

Like many writers with plural nationalities, I have struggled to unify the fragments of my identity. I was born in El Salvador and raised in Los Angeles, yet I never felt that I truly fit as either American or Salvadoran. This feeling of displacement . . .

Illustrating the maxim that the more things change the more they stay the same, my thesis, Kindling, focuses on two outsiders, a Swiss vagabond and a traumatized Slavic peasant woman, who seek refuge in an abandoned German church from the chaotic worl . . .

Depression is a problem that plagues teenagers across America. In order to combat against the isolation and low-self worth associated with depression, teens need to be armed with a group of like-minded peers and an accomplishment to boast about. This . . .

The Real Instrument is a conceptual cross-genre novella that explores the wandering consciousnesses (or larger collective conscious) of commuters sharing the same highspeed rail line. This collection of post-modern vignettes is organized into five seg . . .

A young man's journey separates him from his childhood home, where his family, his job, and his girlfriend have pushed him to a breaking point. He travels to locations that reconnect him with his past, and he attempts to reclaim a version of himself t . . .