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I enjoy writing about strong people.

This set of essays and short stories is a part of my 30/30/30 project. I challenged myself at the beginning of 2017 to compose a short story every day for thirty days. I gave myself a time limit of thirty minutes per session. The result is a set of thirty first draft short stories, poems, and essays. Most of the stories are unfinished, all of them could use more editing, some of them need to be completed, and a few need to disappear completely.

I love the cactus farmer. The metaphor describes strength to a fault. Sometimes the strength is the story: Families who are victims of a country that betrayed them; a couple witnessing a protest against a murder they don’t remember; a child doing his best in a life he didn’t ask for. The fault can be fascinating too though: nurturing that becomes self-sacrifice and martyrdom; protection that disintegrates into myopic selfishness; family traditions that lose their meaning and become toxic and contagious.

Feel free to comment, suggest edits, and tell me which stories you’d like to see grow and which ones you’d like to see die. This has been a fun project and I hope you enjoy it too.