I'm not dead, nor am I even sick. I am, however, seriously inconvenienced by current circumstances. When the pandemic began, my family all ended up in the house full time. My wife was forced into early retirement by the downturn in her companies fortunes, my son was no longer teaching in the classroom and my style has been cramped ever since. I did manage to finish "Things Get Better" last summer before I got kicked out of my home office so the boy could tutor on line but I've been unable to settle into a serious writing 'groove' ever since.
That said, I've been plunking at a few stories here and there, including the two chapters that would complete "All A-Twitter" and rid my page of the dreaded yellow bar of incompleteness. None of the stories is making fast progress, though. Maybe by the end of the year, I'll post something...