With the 5th and final story in the series with @Talo Segura, my beta and editor. I am thinking now of what I have accomplished in such a short period of time.

I am surprised I had the energy, the motivation, and the stamina to write a 70K+ word story series like, Comforting Touch even after 4 years of hiatus from writing in general.

I know my writing style is imperfect, my prose is too long for easy digestion at 13-16K words per short story within a series of 5 stories, and obviously my subject matter may not be interesting to all readers. Even with all my internal doubts and all the possible ramifications of writing a story like this, I still did it and I wrote it in record time for me.

I'll post the 3rd story "Fanning Flames" after New Years.