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I've been featured in June, of eFiction Magazine: The Premier Internet Fiction Zine. The editor, Doug Lance, interviewed me and asked several good questions about my writing background and process. The June issue also contains three of my short stories:

1. "Keeping Watch" is the story of a possible future where the people of earth are enslaved at worst or indentured servants at best to the people who have escaped to live in orbit. The story follows the struggles of Randal Haus who works in immigration, processing applications. One day, on his way to work, Randal witnesses an event that shatters this clean and orderly world of numbers and applications.
2. "Running of the Cows" is a story about a ghostwriting reporter who recounts an atrocity at the newly constructed border wall between The United States of America and Mexico. What he witnessed is nothing short of horrific.
3. "A Tea Party" is about a boy with abusive parents. He does everything right, but his parents still fight about everything. All he wants is to have an adventure that he can share at the school lunch table – a real adventure. Therefore, when a young girl covered in dirt approaches him, he pursues her when she takes off down the alley all in the name of adventure.

It is odd is that I wrote the first two stories in 2006. I was trying to come to terms with some of the border issues between The United States of America and Mexico, and the construction of a Wall of China like border fence. In both of my stories, The United States of America (or the metaphorical representation of a U.S. like destination) has constructed a barrier to keep out the unwanted. In "Keeping Watch," the barrier is space. In "Running of the Cows," the barrier is a fence with machinegun turrets and a minefield.

Either space or a heavily guarded fence, these stories are still relevant today. Immigration is still a hot button topic in both The United States of America and Mexico. The newly passed law in Arizona that requires police offices to ask for proof of legal status is another chapter in U.S. immigration debate. I only hope that we can solve our immigration issues and retain some semblance of our humanity.

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