30 Minutes or Less

by Daniel Elijah Sanderfer

Can thirty minutes change your life? Maybe it can, or maybe it can't. Either way, if you had the chance to sit down with someone you thought hated you, do you think you could find common ground?Charlie and Aiden have known each other since the third grade, but both boys have very different memories of the moments they shared. While Aiden remembers love taps, Charlie remembers a bully who made his life even more miserable than it was and still does to this day.So why does Aiden pick on Charlie if he actually likes him? Maybe he just doesn't know any other way to show Charlie how he feels. Unfortunately, every action has a consequence and he's about to lose the best thing that's ever happened to him if Aiden doesn't change his ways. Join best selling author Daniel Elijah Sanderfer for this short, sweet, enemies to lovers story about two rival boys who find they may have something in common after all.

51 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2020

About the author

Daniel Elijah Sanderfer is an internationally best-selling author of more than one hundred fifty books. He was born in Stuart, Virginia, and raised in the Southside region. He's lived in numerous places across the eastern United States but now resides in rural Lee County, where he lives with his husband of twenty years, William.

His books feature LGBTQIA+ characters from all walks of life but primarily focus on rural living. He's received several award nominations, including Best Author on Goodreads and Best Y.A. Short Story. His works can be found primarily on Amazon, as well as other retailers nationwide. Several of his works are also available in audiobook format.

Before he became a writer, he worked in the hospitality industry for fifteen years, where he received the R.O.S.E. award nomination two consecutive years in the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. His works showcase queer and other characters living their authentic truths. They always contain messages of hope, as well as life lessons. He's a proud, gay own voices author with a large fan following on social media.

You can find information about his life, as well as news on upcoming releases, in his Facebook fan group, Sanderfer's Socialites.

Reviews

[Ellie]

1 star

Problematic bully romance.

I know a lot of people don't like bully romances anyway, which is totally understandable. I think what I like about them, similar to enemies/dislike/rivals-to-lovers, is the slowly changing emotions as they come to understand each other, the realisation that there's more to the person than that toxic aspect, the grovelling and redemption.

This had none of those things.

It justifies the bullying with that age-old (and very toxic) idea that "he's only being mean because he likes you". This frames abuse as something acceptable, as flirtation, as affection.

I think the other reason given for Aiden's bullying, which is that he thinks he's playing funny pranks on Charlie, is "justified" by his having ADHD - um, how about no, that seems like a harmful insinuation.

While the bullying doesn't quite go as far as abuse, and Aiden does apologise to Charlie and admit that he always went to cry after he pulled a "prank" on Charlie that went too far (so...why didn't he stop doing it?!), it's all just brushed off like nothing ever happened.

And then they hook up (FTB).

Charlie shouldn't have ditched that nice boy he went on a date with, he seemed like a much better prospect.

The whole story was absurd.

[Maureen]

Cute short story. Are bullies really bullies? Or are they desperately trying to say something else? Aiden has teased Charlie since they were little, but there is pain behind his actions. This author writes sweet stories.

[Beth Gray]

Very cute story

It was fun to read. Nice happy ever after. Short and sweet. Would've liked a little more.of Charlie and Aiden.