I’m still around. I have had a few messages asking. This year has been the busiest in memory for me, taking over a new role with significant responsibility. At the same time, we have been dealing with some major illness with our youngest child - thankfully we don’t live in the US or the hospital trips and specialist bills would have bankrupted us.
Still, it’s basically put any writing progress on hold since February. I’ve plotted two novel-length stories and bookmarked the source material for another anthology of Japanese Internet confessions but there just hasn’t been the opportunity to do the work that is writing it down.
In the meantime, everything is up at Bookapy and although I didn’t enter this year, you can still read my magical body-swap story from last year’s Halloween contest here on SoL.