Ten Years Gone ........ Good Bye For Now OCTOBER 2005 - After the past hellish year, losing two parents after long illnesses, fighting my own bad health and just trying to drag my ass out of bed each morning, I put House Of Pain on the back burner for a while. I took on a helper, Nickolaus Pacione, to help with the editing and formatting of stories and he did help quite a bit. I added some new work but I was no where near satisfied with where I was going with House Of Pain anymore. I didn't have the time or energy to give it the attention it needs. I still don't, in fact I have even less time now, between running our own businesses, daily life and trying to keep myself moving every day. I had made plans to have a new issue up by mid-March and here it is, mid-March and I don't even have the motivation to start working on anything. I just got back home after three weeks of taking care of my sick mom and I have an upcoming surgery in April that should have a six week recovery time. So, tonight, I made a decision. It was not an easy one to make but for me, it's the only one. It's weighed heavy on my mind. I have about 70 stories that have been sent in over the past few months sitting here and authors that need a place to go. I have loyal readers who I'm letting down but I've come to one conclusion. I can't do this any more. At least not right now. The site will stay up, the archives will remain, in fact everything will still be here except for new fiction. Some day I may get the urge again but right now the only urge I have is to not do this anymore. I want to thank everyone that has contributed over the years. I want to thank all those people who cheered me on when I needed it the most and talked me out of giving it up in the past. It's been very fulfilling to know that many of the authors that I gave a first start to are now being published and I'd like to think that I helped give them the boost they needed to get out there and try by accepting their work here. I also want to thank all the readers that kept me going for the past ten years and gave me a will to keep it up because I hate letting people down. I'd like to think that there will be some people out there that will miss the new fiction, that looked forward to it and to them I say I'm sorry. I've spent ten years taking care of my House Of Pain, now I have to concentrate on taking care of me. Dark Blessings! Last updated
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