#madam beth

[madambeth]

Well, we are at day 5 post poison ivy exposure and we've just reached the point where my arm needs to be wrapped for sleeping so I don't ooze all over the bed like a melting jell-o mold. Being an outdoorsy person who is also a poison ivy magnet is a bummer.

[madambeth]

So good news on the finishing When the Red X is on the Door front....

Part of the reason I haven't finished a new chapter this year is that my laptop went to crap and it was frustrating just trying to log on much less spend any amount of time trying to write but I got myself a new laptop today and I am dog sitting until next Thursday so I am hoping that I get a chapter posted by the beginning of September! I am also team teaching pre-k instead of k this school year so my time will be freed up considerably which will allow me to write more!!! This means I could potentially finish the story in the next few months!!!

[titaniasfics]

Just Posted: Good Again Chapter 46 - All of Me (Final Chapter)

Posted together with Chapter 47, Rec and Play List, on ffnet and AO3

An extra special thanks to everyone who helped me out on this fic, from my betas to prereaders to fans who wrote and encouraged - and sometimes called me to task - when the what I wrote was worth praising or critiquing. It really helped me grow as a writer and I've made so many friends along the way.

The winning scene was the Reunion Scene from Chapter 43.  Loving-Mellark has agreed to draw it. When her work is complete, I will post a note alerting readers. I can't wait to see what she comes up with!

Be sure to keep an eye out early next year for the follow-up to this universe, tentatively titled Sealed with Salt Water.  It will cover the years between the end of this fic until the toast babies. More information will follow.

Thank you for the amazing experience. This was my first fanfiction and I never thought, when I posted those first chapters, that anyone would read it.  I'm truly grateful for how it was received.

Happy Sunday and Happy Reading!

[madambeth]

Readers who leave long, thoughtful reviews...

...are seriously my life blood. For real. I love them to teeny tiny pieces.

[madambeth]

To whoever is rec-ing When the Red X is on the Door...

...I'd like to send you a big fat thank you! Had another inexplicable jump in follows and favorites on it this last week so seriously, thanks a heap!!

[madambeth]

SSS to prove I'm still writing When The Red X is on the Door

I was learning to pick my battles with Peeta’s overprotectiveness. I knew from what my mother told me that it was normal for a first time father, and I knew it was also connected to the swimming pool - sized bucket of fears he carried around with him from his time being hijacked in the Capitol.

When I complained about it, my mother made sure to remind me that Peeta’s Capitol torturers had tried very hard to convince him that the fake pregnancy before the Quarter Quell bad been real and that I ended it to hurt him. That this information so easily accessible and obvious to me, to her, to Haymitch, was to Peeta like the most jagged, minuscule shard of a beautiful vase that had been shattered into a million pieces.

He might have been able to eventually put it back together, but it would never look the same and the pieces would never fit back together quite the same way. She said that some part of Peeta’s mind would always hold those memories in question and I ought to be sensitive to his needs in that respect.

I’d kept my mouth shut pretty well on the subject up until that fourth month, but as I saw and felt the changes occurring almost daily in my body, it became increasingly more difficult to do so. Especially when Peeta just went right along peeing a reasonable number of times in a day, being able to pick up things he dropped on the floor with ease, and sleeping on his stomach like it was the simplest thing in the world to do.

The asshole.