Ten Years Gone ........ Good Bye For Now 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 on
3-10-2005 |