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Dorable comes to an end.

For the first time in a long time, I don't have a replacement story waiting to start up. I'm working on Lena and Community 3 and one of you guys posed an interesting idea about revisiting Bill and Haley from Neighbors, a couple we left with her being fourteen and waiting until her sixteenth birthday so she could marry her Bill. It's intriguing. I might try that.

In the meantime, I hope you continue to enjoy the characters as much as I do.

Life intrudes, replete with travels back and forth across the country on short notice, multiple one-day and overnight road trips, and on top of everything, a stinkin' cold.

Out of it all, I just sent a chapter of Lena off to the editor and one of you folks gave me a very intriguing idea for an excursion for Cindy and the bunch in Community Three.

We'll see if my muse cooperates just a little bit.

Thank you for your support.

I've had several readers write me thinking that I was ending Community 3 Sigma.

Rest assured, I am NOT ending it. There's too much story left to write in that little community.

I wonder about Kim's two aunts. What's Kara been up to? Too many questions that I'd love to answer, just as soon as the muse bonks me with her writing wand.

I've been having a bit of trouble getting my muse going. I finally managed a chapter of Dorable that I just sent to the editor, and I am looking at Lena next.

All that to say that I am still alive, still kicking, but real life intrudes.

Rolling out the first chapter of the new Community series.

Same characters? Check. For now

Same environment? Check. For now, again.

If my muse continues to cooperate, further chapters will follow at a more or less regular pace.

Thanks to the horde of readers who've posted encouragement, and thanks to my particularly helpful editor and to a couple of you readers who've sent me some good twists for the story to take.

Hang on for the ride. I hope to make this a part of our Happy New Year!