Strong Friends Diaries
Stories nobody tells out loud — until now.
Strong Friends Diaries is a narrative storytelling series for the ones who carry everything and are quietly losing themselves in the process. Each entry opens in the middle of a real, human moment — a break room, a dark kitchen, a chair by the window — and stays there long enough to let the truth land.
This is for the strong friend. The reliable one. The one everyone calls and nobody checks on. The one who says “I’m fine” so automatically they’ve stopped checking if it’s true.
If you’ve ever felt invisible in a full room — this series was written for you.
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Strong Twice A Day
There are two shifts to my strength. Nobody sees both. The day shift is twenty-six ten-year-olds. It’s Jaylen, who needs me to notice his new shoes because nobody at home did. It’s the reading groups and the fire drill and DeShawn’s mother on the phone during my lunch, crying about things a fourth-grade teacher cannot…
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Entry #002 The Ledger
I keep a ledger nobody knows about. Not on paper. In my chest, somewhere behind the sternum, where I file every crisis I’ve absorbed without flinching. Today I added three. The morning one was the server outage. Everyone spiraling, and me doing the thing I do — voice half a step slower than everyone else’s,…
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Entry #001: “The Chair by the Window”
It started with a laugh. Not mine — I want that on the record. Someone else’s. I was in the break room around two, in my usual spot by the window, holding a mug that had gone lukewarm without telling me. Tuesday air: burnt coffee, fluorescent hum. A woman I barely know was a few…