In the year of COVID, 2020, I published nine short stories and sold two that are awaiting publication. Only one, “Mask Rebels” that appeared on the Flashbangmysteries.com website had any relation to the current pandemic.

I have speculated before on the effect this pandemic was going to have on the content of my stories, and I am still speculating. I am currently working on four stories (I always work on several projects at once, finding that when I hit a wall on one, I just move to another and keep working) but only one has anything to do with the pandemic. And that one, unlike “Mask Rebels,” which was tangentially related, is directly related to the pandemic. Is it going to work? Am I even going to finish it? Will I ever write another COVID story?

Time will tell.