Welp! After over a year, the forum has decided to allow me back in! Bring out the champagne!!
So, true story - in October 2017, I started submitting to the contest. I also signed up for the forum and made a whopping 2 posts or so, before I was perma-banned for - allegedly - spamming. Confused, I emailed the admin... heard nothing... emailed again... heard nothing back... and again, and again, without ever receiving a reply. A few months later, I gave up. I continued submitting to the contest, and the forum's programming continued to shun me. My account was banned and my IP (I have a fixed IP for work-related reasons) was also banned - I couldn't even access the public threads from my IP.

I became a forum lurker with the help of proxies, looking in at the goings-on in the forum much like a homeless person may watch a warm, happy family celebration around Christmas while frostbite eats at their toes. (Well, perhaps it wasn't quite as dramatic.)
Anyway, by accident, I discovered just now that apparently, I've been let out of purgatory - I was able to read the forums without even using a proxy! Hurray! Spurred into optimism by this development, after a bit of nail-biting, I decided to take the risk and attempt to log in to my account, half-expecting this to activate some sort of code red that would auto-ban my IP again and drive me back into the cold shadows of a proxy existence. But instead, I WAS LOGGED IN! SCORE!!
Miracles still exist, it seems.
All jokes aside - after this involuntary hiatus of more than twelve months, I thought another introduction was in order. Hopefully, this time I'll be sticking around! Last year, I submitted to the context 3 out of the 4 quarters, and one of my stories received an honourable mention. This year, I've already missed Q1 but I'm on track for the current quarter. I have a good feeling about this story, if I can just get it untangled and finished in time.
I'm happy to be on this adventure with y'all!
