Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

Well…this has been an…interesting holiday season for me.

As you know, my cat died. My HOA is being sued by another owner and to make up for that, they doubled our HOA fees which were already astronomical. All the endless horrible news that we keep dealing with as a world. I unfortunately charged most of Christmas. You’d think that when you get this old you’d catch a break…nope!

I hope to end this little story right before Christmas. I know it hasn’t amounted to as much as stories in the past but time and mood has gotten away from me.

I will return to regular Friday flashes in January.

Happy Holidays everyone. Happy New Year too.

My cat passed away last night so updates and responses will be a little slow.

thank you for your understanding

It’s December now so you can expect a continuing holiday story to appear here for the month sometimes soon. I haven’t started it yet but it’s coming. It’s likely to appear more often than Fridays, too. And since it’ll be on the blog it’s going to be PG13.

Luna is still hanging in there. She still loves us and us her. Still not in any acute distress so we’re keeping her happy and comfortable.

We decorated for Christmas this past weekend. Had a nice Thanksgiving. That’s about it. You can expect the first installment of the holiday story later this week.

I’m super behind on everything and I’m sorry. I was on a four day cruise when obviously I couldn’t write and since returning home I haven’t gotten my mojo back. I’m going to try to catch up in the next week or so. Because it’s late in the year I’ll mostly be concentrating on holiday related stories because that’s just the way it is. I’m a little freaked out about the whole thing honestly but I’ll do the best I can do.

Thank you for your patience!

This site has been paid for for another year, most of 2026. But I wanted to let you all know that I have made the decision that the next year will likely be it for this blog. When the time comes for renewal in November next year, I intend to cancel. I’ll still be working on AO3 I think, but this will be ending next year.

I know that is disappointing for some but at least you’ll get another year of flashes, etc.

I’m going to be on a cruise for the better part of the next week so there won’t be any updates to A03 other than the two I just did. I have the flash done for tomorrow and am hoping I can get something written to post next Friday but it might be a day or two late. We will see.

It’s time to vote or express your opinions anyway

Yes it’s only August, sort of mid-August at that but there’s only 3 more August flashes, so I am thinking ahead.

For September I think I’ll do Starfleet Academy flashes (and is anyone besides me excited for the Starfleet Academy show that’s supposed to be coming in 2026?).

But before you know it October, November and December will be here.

For October, I like to do spookyish flashes (or Halloween themedish) flashes, nothing horribly scary, I promise. Is there anything in particular you’d like to see for this month?

For November, I want to do family gathering stuff, Kirks, Spock’s family, whatever, something along those lines, so again if there is anything you want to see let me know

For December, do you want each Friday to be a standalone holiday flash or do you want each Friday to be a part of a continuing story for the month.

For all three months do you want angst, light angst, no angst

Please don’t say “I’m good with anything” LOL. While I appreciate that, it’s not that helpful in planning.

Thank you for anyone who gives me their opinion!

This week’s Christmas in July post will be Mirror Verse (I explain in the post) but on a lark I decided to see what WordPress’ AI generator would create for Mirror Verse. Um. Pretty odd. Especially Spock with blue eyes. But I couldn’t not share,

This has been a challenging month. I had a car accident (minor), I am fighting over a huge premium increase I don’t want to get into but it’s been stressful, and this past Monday I fell down the stairs at my townhome. I am recovering from that but I hurt myself pretty badly. Nothing broken but an extremely bad sprain and trouble getting around.

I haven’t written Friday’s flash but will soon. Don’t be surprised if it doesn’t involve a fall!

Anyway, expect for July some Christmas in July Friday flashes. There are 4 Fridays in July and I think those are still fairly popular.

thanks!

It’s time for one of those updated plans emails and I assure you this is no April Fools prank

I’m hoping to finish off Welcome to the Enterprise by summer. I think I only have a few chapters to wrap it up. Likewise I think The Perfect Mate will make it to its conclusion by then too. I am hoping.

I still plan to write my Lady Hawk Spirk tale, a kinda sad one involving butterflies, and I’m thinking of getting back to supernatural Jim (I left it with the possibility of a sequel at the end).

I hope I can get to these this year. I simply don’t write as fast and as often as I did when I first started writing Spirk stories, but I try to do my best as long as people want to read them. I don’t want to see the fandom die out.