Well, maybe, at least. It's fair to ask, "Just what the hell happened? You've been AWOL for over a year, giant cat lady!" I don't have a particularly good excuse, but I'll give you the honest one.
The thing is, what basically kicked me in the ass to write macrophile-esque stories was an APA, or "amateur press association," called MegaMorphics. An APA is basically like a fanzine with a limited members-only production run: members run off copies themselves for other members and send them all to a "central mailer," who collates the copies together and mails them out. (It's this odd production method that makes it members-only, not a desire to be incredibly exclusive and cliquish.) Most of the stories that appeared on this web site appeared in MM a couple months first.
But, like many such things, MM didn't last forever; while it isn't officially dead, it's been on hiatus for over a year now. And, why yes, it's been a bit over a year since I've posted here. Coincidence? I think not. The last couple of stories I've posted here ("Higher Learning" and "Trompe L'oeil") appeared here before the APA, in part because I'd written a couple multipart stories for MegaMorphics that I didn't want to post here until they were finished---but of course that slowed down posting here and I didn't want to leave the place abandoned. Obviously, that didn't work out.
To add insult to injury, those unfinished stories are, well, still unfinished. (For the record, their working titles are "Bed & Breakfast" and "Gates.") I did actually write a couple things in 2006, but the major one wasn't macrophile at all (gasp) and a couple others are, at least at this point, private.
But, I don't want leave this place languishing another year. I'm going to do my best to get an unfinished story or two finished, maybe get a private story made public, maybe get some notes I've made over the past two years turned into actual stories. And, I think I'm going to do another redesign of the web site, bringing it up to a modern version of WordPress along the way (assuming the new version has the spiffy "white list" spam protection the old one does).
See you all here in... well, hopefully much sooner than last time.