One More Than Thirty explores our struggles to connect with others, our desire to find meaning and purpose in our lives, and the inescapable void many try to fill. Characters discuss philosophical problems while attempting to reach profound and transcendental conclusions, much like conversations we have with our friends into the late hours. All of this occurs as the characters experience the absurd, the uncanny, and the bizarre. A woman gives birth to a triceratops. An adolescent sells apple juice illegally out of his mother’s kitchen in a speakeasy after Congress raises the drinking age. The moon becomes jealous of the sun. All of the stories in this collection are about characters in need. Sometimes they don’t realize what it is they need. Sometimes they don’t find it. Usually, they are looking for it in all the wrong places.
