I'm sorry to say that I have removed my stories from in protest against their arbitrary and unwarranted policy of deleting stories and authors from the archive without reason or explanation.

I sincerely apologise to everyone who has been reading my fics here over the years, or has me on their Favourite Authors or Author Alert list, but I'm just too angry at this archive to feel comfortable posting to it any longer. The removal of stories and accounts just keeps happening to people whose work I respect, and whose stories are posted without problems to other archives with similar NC-17 restrictions that actually check rating and grammar before allowing a story on. Their removal from makes no sense whatsoever (if anyone would want to have a look at the most blatant example of all, Aspen in the Sunlight's completely sex-free PG-13 story 'A Year Like None Other' ( http:///story.php?no=5036), and complaints are just summarily ignored.

Thanks to everybody who's read my fics and for all the lovely reviews I got from you (all safely downloaded, of course!).

You can find all my stories posted on Skyehawke (http:///authors.php?no=71 ),

or on Fictionalley:

- Dark Stuff: http:///authorLinks/Hijja

- Humour: http:///authorLinks/Hijja

- Romance: http:///authorLinks/Hijja.

Or feel free to check out my Livejournal ( http:///users/kennahijja), where I also post new fics. If you want to know more, drop an email to kennahijja@.

I'll leave this account in existence to a) let you know why I'm gone, and b) because I've written a fair number of reviews which I wouldn't want to steal away from the fics I've enjoyed. Unless, of course, it, too, gets culled by the powers that be...