Stories
Shaping real-world accounts into compelling stories. I collaborate with authors to refine their narratives, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and impactful storytelling while addressing grammar and style.
Illustration: Carlos Leopoldo Machado
Easy pregnancy, tough delivery. Ana felt unable to care for her son, Pedro: pain, sadness, torment.
Roger, gifted with height (near 5’9”) at 13, tried baseball, judo, and finally landed on playing volleyball for a local team. Although his country’s volleyball association discovered him, his Mother had no money to support his dream. Nothing but hope.
After 10 years as a doctor, Carolina Medina discovered her passion: integrative medicine, which involves studying mind-body-spirit healing. Terminal cancer patient Liliana proved that she was right.
Beyond examining cells, a life viewed closely and under a microscope reveals story, hope, and joy. Bioanalyst Marlyn Puerta understood this meaning through Barbara, a child that almost died prior to meeting Marlyn because no one could read her blood tests correctly.
When a cure isn’t possible, doctors offer comfort in our last moments. Dr. Rita Antonini, afraid of death, understood this through someone who wasn’t her patient.
A dad in Lima, Peru. His daughter taken by force to Chile by his estranged sister-in-law. Without clues, he crosses the Atacama Desert to search for his daughter.
Veteran teacher Pedro heard a gang was planning on killing one of his 3rd grade students. He urgently tries to stop it.
A mother’s Venezuelan daughters migrate to her homeland of Spain. After 18 months with family, the daughters travel their way through this new land and lose contact with each other. This is a tale of reunion, overlapping journeys, and memories.
