Just a quick note: there's going to be a new Dracula: the Series fanfic showing up here within the next few days. It's really good! I'm getting back into writing again, so hopefully, the next chapter of Atonement will come some. I'm also not involved with that ... distraction anymore, so hey, I've got lots of time of my hands... coming up soon, I hope.

I updated the "About Me" section quite a bit today. I did get a bit more written on Chapter 11, but not as much as I need to before I post it. Screams and work and school and other matters in my life have been taking up most of my time, and being sick the past week and a half has been taking up the rest... uck! Well, I'm starting to feel better now, and I dropped my hardest class (though I feel like such a slacker for doing so!), and those other matters seem to fading away, though not by my choice. So. What I'm trying to say is that I should get back on the writing track soon! Also, several of my beta's have started writing and what I've read so far is pretty impressive, so I'm hoping to get their stuff up as well. I'm leaving for Cozumel tomorrow morn, won't be back until late Monday night, so I won't get to work on the story until after then, but I'm hoping this Cozumel trip will get me back into the swing of things... Screams has been a lot of fun, but very exhausting.

Sorry for so long since the last update. I've been very ah. . .pre-occupied. Still am, actually. Perhaps I understand better now, however. I am back to writing. I hope, anyway. Chapter 11 was half-written a few weeks ago. I hope to finish it this weekend. I got the job at Screams! *laugh* it's going to be lots of fun!!! And I am going to be really busy until the end of October.

*grumble grumble* well, I fix one thing, then another breaks! The counter now appears to be having problems. Eesh. I can't do a lot about that! I just hope it resolves itself soon! Hmm. I have been way to busy to get any writing done this week. People who have emailed me probably think I hate them since I haven't repplied to most of the messages I've received... I'll get to them, I promise! Eventually. I've got a scanner now, an excellent one at that, so I've been going nuts scanning every photo I can get my hands on and playing with them - that explains the few picutes some people might have noticed showing up - like the clouds on the entrance page (I took that picture - I'm pretty proud of it). Anyway, I've got a billion and two things to do, so I don't know when the next update will be. But, I have my interview for Screams (see the about me section... it's a haunted house) next Wednesday morning, so wish me luck! They told me most of the positions were already filled, but that they would interview me anyway for a stand-by or floater position... :( I'll have to make a really good impression... *grin* How do you make a good impression to work at a haunted house? hehehe... I'll let you know when I find out...

Got a new guestbook, since the old one wasn't working! Stupid thing. Anyway. I hope this one works. If it doesn't let me know! I've lost all the old entries, so, if you signed before... you don't *have* to sign again.. but I'd like you to! :)

Chapter 10! Finally! (Of Atonement) Hopefully, Chapter 11 won't be so long in coming. I'm going to start writing it tonight.. :)

Is that the right date? :) I get all confused sometimes.. I promise to have chapter 10 out tomorrow... some time, it may by 1159pm, but it will be out! It's pretty much in draft form now, I just need to get it touched up a little. Thanks to everyone for visiting, my visits have really gone up! *laugh* um yeah, I'm a little tired. School starts on the 23rd... *sob sob* so much for summer..

Heya! ONE YEAR TODAY!!! YIPPEE!!! I only need 6 more hits at this time to make 3000.. please visit! visit visit!!! :) One year of total madness, silliness, goofiness.. wee-hee... :) I'm being silly. Sorry. I'm just in a silly mood. I get that way. Chapter 10 is .. um .. well .. getting there .. it's about .. well .. halfway thru .. yeah .. so, um. I'll get there... sorry, I missed the two-week date. Writer's block.

Friday the 13th! Of course, I had to write something today! I'm still sad aboud the Perseids, but I will get over it.. eventually... Part Four of Bloodroses is now up! This story about Sephiroth's teenage years is getting some good reviews, so if you haven't started reading it, go see what all the fuss is about... (if you are a Sephiroth fan...)
Later in the day... 3000!!!! HEHEHEHE YEAH!! :) Actually, 3003! Thanky to everyone coming and making my day! :) I happy. I go work on chapter ten now. :)

I haven't added anything... this is just an AHHH! update. I've been planning to see the Perseids, a major meteor shower, for some time, and I just now took the time to look up when the "peak" day (or best time to view them) was... I was thinking that it was around Aug 20-21, since that is what it was a two years ago.. but nooooo, it's Aug 12! AH! Now I'm depressed cause I got no one to go see them with, cause my sis and her friend are going to be out of town that night. And the other people I meant to ask... well, I won't see them again til the weekend... *sob sob* Can't really go by myself cause I tend to create all sorts of interesting things out of shadows and scaring myself half to death. *sigh* My bad, I should have looked them up sooner. Anyway, if you happen to be out late at night on Aug 12, (or actually, the morning of Aug 13, which also happens to be Friday the 13th...), take a look up - the show is really really neat (90-120 meteors an hour.. or something like that...)

My one-year aniversary for this page is coming up! August 17 marks one year of this silliness! I was hoping to make 3000 visits but... *sigh* I don't think I am going to make it. OH WELL. :) I'll be pretty close. I'm happy with my counter total, as is. Anyway, Part 3 of Nishiko's Bloodroses is now up in the FF7 Fanfiction area.

Chapter Nine of Atonement is up now! Sorry, guys, I haven't even started Chapter 10. I've been so busy working on the re-write of DS that I haven't gotten to thinking about 10. 10-14 days probably. Keep your fingers, eyes, legs, toes... crossed... ;)

Bloodroses, a Sephiroth fanfic by Nishiko, parts one and two, are now up in the FF7 Fanfic section. It's a good story! Go, read!

It's been six days! I feel like I have been neglecting my baby! Well, I think everyone knows what this update is about. I went crazy with the backgrounds again and changed a whole bunch. What do ya think of the new main page? Hehe. I little crazy, I know, but I have to have a light color because of the black chocobo and the red dragon. I don't know what I'll do about that. Anyway. Chapter 9 will be out August 3rd or 4th. I kinda already finished it, but I haven't started Chapter 10, so I'm trying to space it out a little. I have a new Sephiroth fic though, from a new writer, that might be up before that.

*yawn* why do I keep staying up so late? Something just crashed against the wind, the slid down with a scracty noise. Right around midnight. Very rude of that creature, I think. Nearly sent me hiding under the computer desk. Nearly. Oh wait, I'm supposed to be telling what I updated (yes, I'm that tired). Chatper Eight of Atonement is up. It's long! Officially the longest section written, by about 100 characters (chapter 9 of DS is the next biggest). Anyway. Enjoy. Write me love notes or hate notes in the guest book. It's getting lonely and depressing me. Did anyone notice the smiley's? BTW, I'm wanting input from what people want from this site, from me at least. More vampires? More Final Fantasy? More non-vampire original stuff? Perhaps other sections? Right now, the few emails I do get are asking from more vampire and more FF7 in about equal amounts.

No, not chapter 8 yet. But I do have another treat. It's two snippets that I wrote a long time ago, but I still consider them good. They are original vampire fiction, so they are in the vampire fiction page. Enjoy!

Been doing a few changes around the page that didn't merit updates for each tiny one. A friend put a transparent background on my pic on the about me page (Thank you, Gene), so it doesn't look so weird now. Fixed a few links here and there. The rough draft of Chapter 8 is done - it's a long chapter! And I expect to put it up anywhere between today and Sunday. I already started Chapter 9. I've been working quite a lot lately, but I got a few unexpected boons and I have made up a lot of the money I lost. Just been real busy. I have a new Sephiroth fanfic from a new writer, titled Bloodroses, that I am going to get up also in a few days. What I've read is pretty interesting. What else. Um. There's some Ren Faire links now, and I updated the about me sect again and added a very large portion about haunted houses - don't read it unless you are just terribly bored. :) Back to writing!

I'm feeling a little better now. Thank you for all the people who wrote me expressing their sympathy for the windshield. I put a vampire story, titled, well... It. I know, un-original as I can get. *shrug* It's a shorty, and it's not necessarily good. But hey, it's a story! I'm not going to put a date on when Chapter 8 is going to be out just yet.

Woke up this morning and found that some punk had broken the rear windshield of my car. Not a happy moment for me. Nothing was taken, but my insurance deductable is more than the cost of replacing the glass - so I'm out $450 that I can't afford to spend. This means I am going to have to do extra work in order to get by this month, and I will probably have to borrow on top of that to make all my payments. So. I will probably be too busy to work on chapter 8 for a while. Right now, I am too darn upset to even think about working on it. Last night, I did start it and got a fair amount done, but I have to set that aside until I have $$$ again.

Found out that my at least one of my beta's had written me, but the email got lost in never-never land. Anyway, there's a note that I put up for those who are reading my Seph fanfic, an explanation of sorts. It's on the Sephiroth Fanfic page.

Well, I gave up on my beta's getting back to me and just went ahead and posted Chapter 7. It shouldn't have too many errors. Sorry for the delay! I haven't started Ch 8 yet.

If you have had trouble loading the main page, it's because of a new script I thought would be neat.... What you should have seen (and some of you may have) are little Sephiroths, Vincents, and Setzers chasing your mouse cursor. I took it off cause it was driving *me* nuts. :) And it wasn't working for some people. I also put up two pictures of my cat, Copernicus, in the "About me" section, under pets. As soon as the server updates, you'll be able to see them. It seems to be slow today. Chapter 7 will be tonight or tomorrow (depending on the server, I imagine). I'm writing these pretty fast! Don't get too used to this! 1st day of second summer session... 7 wks till real school starts again...

Happy 4th! For those Americans out there. Chapter 7 is nearly done. I did a little outline to get an idea of how much longer Atonement is going to be, and I am looking out oh... perhaps up to chapter 20... That's very very vague... I'm not positive on that. Atonement was supposed to be the major part of the story, anyway. I got a little carried away with DS - I didn't expect it to get as long is it did. OH well. Ta-ta. Just wanted to get you up to date.

Chapter 6 of Atonement is up. :)

Early in the morning here... anyway.. edited the links... and added pictures... of me... RUN HIDE! Yes, pictures of me, in Faire costume (gypsy)... don't worry, I put them in the about me section so you don't have to see them if you don't want to. :) Ok, they aren't really that scary, I just being weird, due to the usual nutcases you find on the net. Chapter 6.. within the next few days.

I was looking through the links on my Seph Fic page and I realized that there is a BIG error if one reads straight thru - I put the link at the end of "Interlude" to go straight to chapter one, rather than the prologue to atonement.. AH!!!! I feel so bad! Now everyone who's read from interlude and clicked on that link will think I am deranged! AH AH AH AH!! So... I guess I am saying that everyone who's reading the story might want to go read the prologue of Atonement - it might explain some things that could have been missed due to my idiocy...

Chapter 5 of Atonement is up... I've been adding little graphics and backgrounds everywhere, I'm sure it's been noticed - just trying to make things look nicer. WHY ISN'T ANYONE SIGNING MY GUESTBOOK?!?! *sob sob* I'm starting to feel unloved again! This is not a good thing! Chapter 6 may take me a while, due to summer classes that actually require thinking and extra work that I am doing to make more money.. my time is all gone! I haven't even started Chapter 6...so.. oh well.. *sigh*

No, I don't quite have Ch.5 done, even tho I was trying to keep with the every two-week thing. But... THE TEMPLE IS BACK!! Yes! The Temple of Aeris and Sephiorth is finally back up! I am so happy! Seems like it will be up for a while! So. Ch.5 should be out within the next few days.. I'm just waiting to hear from some betas...Later: You may have noticed those weird things that look vaguely like... OH NO!! not that! Yes, those are poems... that, yes, I wrote... More might be showing up, when I dig up some more, until each page has it's theme... and some will probably change as I find better poems to suit the pages...

If you have been noticing some weirdness with the main page - sorry! The counter server I have changed some stuff around, and it took a while to get *that* fixed - and now, for some ODD reason, the background doesn't seem to be loading - at least, not for me. So, I went ahead and changed the default background color to white so at least you ought to be able to read the writing now. ACK! And I have to figure out what went wrong. Could just be geocities. Lessee. Oh yeah. I also messed around a bit with the formatting on my seph fiction page, since I can't leave well enough alone. And, one last thing, Ch. 4 of Atonement is up. I'm hoping everybody likes it! I worked really hard on it!

My Sephiroth Fanfic celebrates it's 1st birthday today! One year ago, I penned the first words to paper, never knowing it was going to take me this long, never knowing that I would even start a webpage... :) My, I have come a long way. Chapter 4 will be up in a few days. I already started Ch 5, I am just not happy with Ch.4 yet.

Finally added part three of Matters of Family, with a new ending (for the old readers!). That's it.

Moved some stuff around from the short story page to the vampire fiction page - meant to do that some time ago. Also added two new Dracula: the Series fanfics.

Well, I have good news and bad news. Good news, Chapter Three of Atonement is complete and up! Good news, I'm about halfway through Chapter Four. Bad news, summer session at the ole' college starts next week! AH! So much for summer vacation. I am taking supposedly easy classes - just six hours worth, so I am hoping it would consume all of my time. Bad news (in a off-hand sorta way) Atonement is taking longer to get going than I thought it would, and, right now, Chapter Four is frustrating the heck outta me! Thank goodness for betas! :)

I'm BACK! Ok, if you didn't notice, I've been lurking around making a few changes and add-ons here and there. Exams are pretty much done - there's one more, but it's easy! Anyway. There's a guestbook. SIGN IT! :) There's a picture of Jyleth (thank you Velcro!), a map to go with the who story, and, oh yea, Chapter Two happens to be done and up! *laugh* Chapter Three is half done as well. Did that pretty fast, huh? Well, in a manner of speaking. Guess that's all.

Due to exams, I am taking a short leave of absence (did I spell that right?) until May 13 (or 14). It's only temporary! I won't be checking my email or updating the page during that time. I will be working on CH 2, a little bit at a time, and it *might* be done when I get back... sorry! See you in two weeks!

Added link for the Sephiroth Fanfic discussion list I made some time back. Made an updates archive and pulled out most of the updates on this page so that it doesn't take so long to load. Chapt 2 is about 1/4 the way done.

Yes, I know that some of the links on The Temple Fanfic page don't work. Someone has already told V that, I am sure. Hopefully, it's just a temporary problem! Chapter 2 is... coming along.. I don't have a whole lot written, this part is hard to write, expect to see some stuff added to Ch 1 before chapt 2 comes out.

Just wanted to let you know that V. Souma has put the fanfics back up on The Temple of Aeris and Sephiroth! YEAH! Maybe eventually, the whole page will get back up! Please send encouragement to V. Souma. I don't know if V appreciates the letters, but maybe...!

Updated some links, as well as now linking Croik's story (it has a title now!) to her page. Tidied up a few things added a few links, so nothing big. The tests that were looming large in my future are now all over, so maybe I will feel some creative release and write a lot the next couple days... well, one can hope!

Chapter One of Atonement is up! Also, I might have a picture of Jyleth from the artist Velcro appearing up sometime soon. I CAN'T WAIT! :) Any and all artists are welcome to draw pictures for/from my story. Just send it to me in .jpg or .bmp - not .gif (gif files are too large!).

Chapter one is really done, I am just waiting to hear back from my beta readers to make sure I didn't make any horrible errors. I am my own worst editor, so I let other people do that for me. :) (thank you Croik and Little Tree!) Lesee. I added some links. If you haven't written V. Sourma about closing down the Temple of Aeris and Sephiroth, you need to! NOW! Oh, the Fallen Angels link is back... kinda, she renamed her site as "Sacred Innocence" - But no fanfic. :(

No April Fool's jokes here... :) I did add to the Prologue of Atonement - just a little at the end, but it's pretty important... AH! Writer's block still plaguing me... :( Pht.. I am working on Chapter One tho, I swear. I've noticed that the "Fallen Angels" link no longer works... that's sad.. and Also, I hope everyone will go to the link on "Temple of Aeris and Sephiroth" and write V. Sourma (or whatever their name is) and tell them NOT to close down the Temple!!! There's a lot of good fanfic there, and I haven't read it all! I have written this person several times offering any help I can, but they won't reply to me. Maybe if they get enough emails, they will put the page back up! So go, write! Express your support!