So I finally finished and uploaded chapter four just before the end of 2021 in the time zone I inhabit.

I originally planned on it being done before Halloween, then thanksgiving, then before Christmas and now I finished it before the year ended!

How did this happen? Well here are a few factors: working retail, exhaustion from working retail, wanting to enjoy the holidays, family drama, desire to do other projects, drawing projects, financial BS, Pokémon Go/Pokémon go telegram group, telegram, Twitter, Furaffinity, burnout, writers block, struggling to put word to paper, watching an assortment of things on my phone, IPad and TV, the lack of desire to open google docs…

I can go on and on, but it can be explained by two things: excusers and various things in my life.

Second half of the story. Originally posted in the submission of ch.4 part 3/3, but removed to not discourage people from reading the story.


So as per usual with my loose follow-up with last year’s Christmas story, I spend too much time with minor details and I sort of rush the ending. It’s at least better paced and written than in previous years, but it’s as much as I wanted to say. Nothing additional; just enough so you don’t get lost! That being said, it came out WAY later than I wanted, and I have only myself to blame. I’m the one in control of everything, from conception to writing to publishing. The only thing I cannot control is who I use, which I had to change what characters I used and how I wrote characters more than once during the writing of this chapter. This has been exhausting and there’s a chance I might end things here to move onto other projects. If I do, a sigh emoji will be placed here: ____. If I don’t, a emoji of my choosing ____. I don’t plan on or desiring for the next chapter to be longer than the 10,000+ words of chapter four but who knows at this point! I don’t know and I’m the damn writer!