My laptop, upon which rest ALL my files and corespondance regarding the story, has gone dead on me. It's at the hospital where it will hopefully be repaired within a week. It doesn't seem to be anything terminal. Merely something that won't let the screen light up. An inverter, they said. It's a MacBook.

Anyway, as a result, all my notes, pictures, everything to do with the story is stored on it and, without it, I can do nothing to enable me to post the next chapter until I get it back. My sincere apologies to the other writers participating in the story, and to those who are reading and enjoying the story. As soon as I get it back, I will post chapter 8... which was almost ready to go.

For now, I am using my old desktop, windows machine. It's sort of like going from a Lamborghini to a minivan, but it works. I don't have a microphone or camera on this machine, so all conversations will have to be in typed format. Sigh. Into each life, right?

Catherine Linda Michel