Lost Person Behavior: A Reckoning

Abstract

“Lost Person Behavior: A Reckoning” is a collection of flash literary nonfiction, creative nonfiction essays, and short fiction that explores the entangled terrains of love, fear, belief, embodiment, and survival. Written in conversation with my graduate work in rhetoric and writing studies, the critical introduction establishes the relationship between rhetorical inquiry and creative practice, arguing that both are invested in how bodies, experiences, and identities are made meaningful. The creative pieces that follow reckon with how intimacy, uncertainty, and disruption are taken up by the body and shape lived experience. Across genres, the collection moves between the intimate and the unknown, examining how individuals make meaning of what cannot be fully understood.