omg I was starting to think everyone hated everything this week, lol! I hadn’t gotten a single comment since Monday night! The comments are fixed now, so if you wanted to leave a comment on anything I’ve posted this week:

Dear Reader – Part 48 | Dear Reader – Part 49 | Dear Reader – Part 50

You’re Not Sorry – Part 1 | You’re Not Sorry – Part 2

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 50

Updated a fair bit this week, so if you’ve missed anything —

Dear Reader – Part 48 | Dear Reader – Part 49 | You’re Not Sorry – Part 1

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 2

Phillies are playing at 9:45 again and I am draggging. I went to sleep late last night because of the game not getting over until after midnight, and I had to get up early to move the car to avoid a parking ticket. If I stay up again, and the Phillies lose, you’re gonna see me on the news.

Last double update until (maybe) Friday.

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 49

In Case You Missed It: You’re Not Sorry – Part 1

Also updated: Flash Fiction & Recent Updates

Hope everyone is having a good day! No melatonin overdose for me last night, and shockingly, I woke up on time at 7 and didn’t have to drag mself out of bed.

If you missed it, I launched the new Flash Fic last night as my bonus update to keep me awake (the Phillies lost, but we’ve decided to blame the umpire). I’ll update the new story again tonight if the schedule works out. Either way, Dear Reader finishes tomorrow, and I’ll be posting the new story.

I don’t usually like to write the same time period back-to-back like this, especially since I know a lot of you aren’t watching regularly. I’m working on plotting out a few other stories, and taking care to avoid 2024 next time. It’s just this idea just clicked, and it’s been a while since a story came together in my head like this.

Update: You’re Not Sorry – Part 1

I was originally going to do a bonus update of Dear Reader to wrap it up faster, but I wasn’t really feeling a second update in me today (this usually happens to me as I wind down a story, the fun stuff is over, lol) but I still wanted to do something that keeps me awake for a late Phillies game, so…we’re launching the new flash series early!

I haven’t added it to the Recent Updates // Flash page yet, so I’ll do that tomorrow, but I’m very excited about this one. I’ve been plotting out the whole story, and I’ve got 10k of scenes and dialogue sketched out, and I’m a little past halfway through. Hope you guys enjoy this one 🙂

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 48

I’ve been feeling super tired and sleeping a lot lately — and last night, I went to bed around 10 because I really wanted to get up at a good time and get a lot of work done — but then I slept until almost 9AM and still struggled to get out of bed. I started to think well maybe with it being summer, I don’t need to take my melatonin — I usually take 2 10mg tablets because I struggle to sleep during the school year.

I look at the bottle today and it’s 40MG tablets! I’ve been taking 80MG of melatonin every damn night. NO WONDER I’m freaking tired. I didn’t look closely when I got this bottle, lol. So we’re going cold turkey for a few days to reset my system. Just wild, lol.

Anyway.

Phillies play at 9:45 three times this week, so if I end up doing bonus updates for Flash to keep myself awake, I’ll start writing at 8:30 and post at 9:30PM tonight, Tuesday, and Friday.

So I might be back tonight, I might not. Sign up for updates in the sidebar if you want emails 🙂

Update: Dear Reader – Part 47

One my favorite things about summer is no Sunday scaries 😛 I overslept this morning, mostly because I stayed up too late last night. My schedule is all off, lol, and it won’t get better with 9:45 starts in San Francisco this week. There are three of them, so don’t be surprised if I pop up with updates here at at like 9 or 9:30. (These would be extra, not late updates)

See you guys tomorrow 😛

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 46

Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far! I’m making up the updates for Tues/Thurs that I ended up skipping so I can stay on schedule — though I did sneak a peek at the times for the upcoming Phillies games on Mon/Wed and let me tell you — they’re in San Francisco and starting at 9. So I might end up doing some bonus updates just to stay away. Not committing to that, of course, but don’t be surprised if I pop up at 9:30 PM with updates, lol.

Glad you guys seem to enjoy the teens! I tend to write them a bit more realistically than the show does mostly because this is the age group I teach, and there’s no subject too serious that they can’t start messing with each other. Teenage boys tend to put on a mask and go with the flow most of the time, and don’t really let it all hang out for people to see if that makes sense.

I’m looking forward to expanding Dear Reader and really fleshing it out when it goes into edits — this was my first time writing a ton of these characters and this time period, so I was doing a lot of experimenting. When will that happen? Excellent question.

See you guys tomorrow — probably around a similar time, but maybe writing at 7, posting at 8.

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 45

Apologies for missing yesterday. I’ve been decluttering my office and yesterday’s project stirred up dust which triggered my allergies which triggers my asthma–anyway. I’m actually decluttering this time, and not just moving things to new homes where they sit for a year until I declutter that space. I’m actually finding permanent homes for objects and discarding things I haven’t used in forever. I have a huge problem of just shoving loose books and papers and related objects into empty spaces on my shelves and desk.

And also sorry it’s so late today! I meant to do it this morning, then earlier this evening, but my sister is out of town with her family (scheduled forever ago before my aunt) and my dad’s with her, so Mom ended up not feeling up to my brother’s. I felt bad and wanted to take her ribs fresh from the grill and check up on her, so we’re late tonight 🙂

I’ll be back tomorrow and Sunday to make Flash updates so I can still finish this story on schedule 🙂 Happy Fourth!

Update: Dear Reader – Part 44

Recent Updates | Tortured Poets Collection: The Black Dog (Crimson Swift Summer Patreon Special)

Finally managed a day where I’m mostly on schedule, even if the Phils are working against me. Game was rained out last night, there’s a double header today, and we already lost the first game, so that’s how the day is going so far.

I have, unsurprisingly, not found a lot of time to work on These Small Hours which is wildly off schedule. I’d hoped to start digging into it this week, but I’ve had, unsurprisingly, things that are distracting me, and I’ve prioritized Flash Fiction & the work on Patreon to finish The Black Dog. I’m hoping to change that up this week and next, so cross your fingers that nothing else in my life goes catastrophically awry.