The Stray Kids of Edogawa Rampo

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I really REALLY hated to post this. But given the circumstances, I seriously think that I need to.

As you know, we are currently facing a pandemic right now. A battle in which there's no way of winning, for now, at least. We are all affected by this crisis in more ways than one, financially, economically, industrially, and even educationally. We are forced to find options to continue moving forward and make the world go round. Options in which not all people have the ability to do so or to even consider. Many people lost their jobs and their ability to feed their family, thus completely relying to the government's aid, which is scarce.

I would not even dare to forget the direct victims of this war, the patients and even the family members. The front-liners and those people who assured that the rest of the community is safe. These people fought for their lives and for our security despite risks. And the patients fought the battle directly to make sure that they can come home virus-free to their families, who's sincerely waiting for their return and to also pull the death toll down.

Me and my family are very heartbroken to tell you that my father has been one of the strong people who's currently fighting this virus as of the moment. He's being isolated in a quarantine facility as of the moment, away from us, away from home. And I wasn't even able to see him. All I could do is to hope for the best. The rest of my family are on home quarantine monitored by our LGU, they would undergo rapid tests after their 14-day quarantine.

I, however, is away from them when all of these happened. I'm currently living on my own and is continuing work as usual. Unfortunately, just this week, the first positive case in our office was announced and she's one of my friends who I hung out with before she tested positive. This resulted to me, being a Person-Under-Monitoring and I am currently on a 14-day quarantine. I am scheduled for a rapid test as well.

What happened caused me real internal chaos but in times like this, the last thing I must do is to breakdown. My family believes in me, I believe in them and we'll freaking, freaking survive this.

In return, I would like to announce that I will be pausing my activities in this book. I will post this writing to every book that I would go hiatus on. Don't worry, I will continue writing some of my works here in Wattpad. But as for my ongoing mystery/thriller books, which I wouldn't like to write in this disturbed state, I would like to take a break.

I wanted to focus on things, making myself better and hoping for the best.

To all people who supported me, who's supporting me and will support me in the future, thank you so much. I'll come back, that's a promise.

For now, I'll end it here.

I love you always. Salamat sa pagsama sa akin sa kung saan-saan.

Mahal ko kayo.

Palagi.