This is just a quick note to let those who keep track know that I'm still present.

Health issues continue to dominate my life, and that has also been part of why I have not been able to finish any of my TG stories. I will not bore you with the convolutions of it, but I have nearly a dozen stories that are either written to when my energy failed and I collapsed for a few days, or exist only in fragments of character description or dialogue. And maybe there are two dozen story ideas, just notes to self that are gradually accumulating on my hard drive. Some are quite short notes, others are long and touch on all the branches of thought or narrative that might go in the actual story.

It does seem that a great many TG stories are begun and posted in installments, but their author's do not seem to be able to find an ending. This also seems true for erotica and pleasant fantasies of the non-TG sort posted elsewhere on the Internet.

As far as the health issues go, there's nothing life threatening, and there are plenty of people who have worse health problems than mine. For me, it is just a continuing disability. Enough to remind me to be compassionate towards so many others who have their own health problems.

Halloween fast approaches, and another year of trying to come up with an original story idea related to Halloween. Probably not going to happen. I'll settle for writing - and finishing - a short story and writing it well enough that people enjoy it and don't care whether it is original or not.

It is so lovely being a small part of Big Closet. Just reading the stories, getting to know some of the very loving and supportive persons here, and occasionally posting some feedback to authors. This little corner of the Web feels like such a safe and special place, like the Last Homely House in 'The Lord of the Rings'.

- Annemarie
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver