One year later…

Hello, again.

I never thought I’d let Catsignal go so long without a single post. I love what I’ve done here. I love writing things and sharing them with you. But my chronic fatigue syndrome and migraines have kept me mentally and physically benched. And on that front, it has been a long, bad year.

I have, however, finally written another story. It’s one I had started a couple of years ago and never quite knew where to take it past a certain point. I have solved that problem, and the story – “Precarious Balance” – follows this note.

This by no means signals a return to regular posting. But it does, at least, tell me that I can still do this. I can still create. I can still put one word after another in what some may find an entertaining fashion. Even if I have to work on it piecemeal on the rare days when I am awake enough to concentrate, I can still do this. And that means the world to me.

I hope you enjoy the story. I also hope you don’t give up on Catsignal. I haven’t.

Author’s Note: Now Comes September

Yeah, so I took August off…

The first week, I simply couldn’t do anything. Even though I had some haiku written and plenty of quotations available, it was too much effort to open the back end of my blog and post two things. After that, I just decided to take the month off, promising myself I’d get back to at least the usual minimal posting in September.

So here I am again. And let’s hear it for muscle memory that let me remember my password to get into this place.

Thank you – so very much – for checking back to see if I’m still here. I have a great desire to write a story, a desire I haven’t felt for a long time, thanks to the CFS. I hope I can translate that desire into something worth reading before too long. Meantime, a haiku based on looking out the back door. (Plus! a new background and new text area color to try to brighten things up. What do you think?)

#quikfic no more

I’m ending the #quikfic feature. It’s been fun, and it’s a great exercise in brevity, but, well, I’ve done that and I’m done with it. And frankly, the chronic fatigue syndrome doesn’t make it easy to do a 140-character story every week. I just can’t pull together the mental resources to meet the challenge.

Thanks for reading the #quikfics, and I hope you enjoyed them.

That leaves even less reason for anyone to show up here, given that I don’t remember the last time I wrote a short story. I’m down to a haiku and a quote every week. I’ll see if I can’t come up with something else for you to enjoy when you visit.