Hello Dear Readers!

I know, I know. Where the hell did I just come from?

It's been quite some time since I last updated, but for some reason the past week has brought me back to this site… after nearly 7 years.

I've graduated from college, I'm a professional artist and I've moved to the East Coast to build my portfolio and visit potential graduate schools for my MFA… I'm right where I want to be in life, but it's a funny little breath of refreshing nostalgia to rediscover this place…. as oxymoronic as that sounds!

Looking through my stories and reviews, it's amazing how much I've changed. I was all enthusiasm and innocence! But not just myself… it's incredible how many people in general come of age while using this site…. Haha. Oh, the world we live in today!

BUT!

Let's get to what I'm sure all you reviewers are TRULY interested in… my stories.

Folks, I've been around the world and working in my real passion: Painting. Although I'm still wholly appreciative of Anime, its wonderful art form and the effects it has on my own visual language, it just hasn't been a part of my life for the better part of the past decade. Haha… Although, my freshmen year of college, my animation professor did show Samurai X to my class as an example of the depth animation reaches today… I just about hyperventilated in my seat!

Anyway, I digress yet again….

Steam…. My gratuitous twist on the notorious Hot Springs episode that never got to the good stuff! (As earnest as I was in my younger days, I would have killed myself for that cliffhanger, too!)

Although some of the things in my writing and storyline make me roll my eyes (Kaoru is unaware of male sex organs and their sensitivity? Give me a break…), I don't think I will edit what I already have.

Bad news:

I worked on these stories from notebooks during class in High School as well as the good ol' trusty desktop at my parents' house.

What does this mean, you ask?

As I said before, I've been to school AND moved across a third of the country. I don't have access to the files I was working on before my long (looong) hiatus. Thus, I will have to start Chapter 4 from scratch and with only incredibly vague recollections of what my intentions were for B & K.

Good News:

I actually INTEND to finish this piece! Yes! That is gospel, I would think…

As for anyone wondering after my other three pieces… I haven't decided about those yet. They are bit more involved than Steam is and, just as I explained above, the files are lost in the recesses of the antique computer gathering dust in my childhood home.

Apologies:

I adamantly refuse to apologize for my absence as I'm positive everyone has had ample diversions whilst the waiting. I WILL however apologize (with a devious smirk) for bursting expectant bubbles with a mere author's note instead of the long overdue update.

In short, I have reappeared from oblivion…. And with intention! (At least for now…)

Stay well, readers, and have just a bit more patience with me…

(To those familiar with Dune… consider this some practice in spannungsbogen)

xxx