The Fort Family is truly saddened by the loss of the Author and Site Owner True Fan. He will be sorely missed.

We are extending our sincerest condolences to his family, co-authors, and readers.

His site will be maintained as a memorial to him.

Requiescat in Pace, 

The Fort Family Admins

Hi everyone,

As some of you may have noticed, we have been experiencing intermittent outages with a small handful of our story siites as recently as earlier today. These outages are a result of a service that we utilize being hacked, which is affecting some functionality of the sites and triggering malware scanners within our service. It is being addressed but as with any attack of this nature, we can't offer a timeframe of when we are "in the clear" as we are simply reacting when trouble pops up as software needs to be developed to address this new issue moving forward.

For now, be sure you keep copies of everything that is newly posted on your site as an attack could force a site to restore from a recent backup, which 'could' reverse the addition of new material. Site owners, you will be contacted if this action is performed on your site. Get in touch with one of us if you have any questions or concerns.

Together we built The Fort Family and together we defend it!
- Jeff

Hi Fort Family!

As many of you may be unaware, on Thursday evening our service provider was one of many who experienced a complete outage that took our entire community down for a short period of time. I won't go into any details but we are not complaining about the speed in which this issue was addressed. The reason for this post is to request that any major site updates or important chapter postings should be postponed to allow for temporary fixes to receive permanent repairs. Where the work continues, I would consider all of our sites "Read Only" for a day or two. I will attempt a current backup as a "Just Incase" but, if we experience DNS issues resulting from the outage, new work could be lost.

So please join us in thanking those involved in such a speedy recovery but to be safe, do some reading and let your readers angrily stare at your newest cliffhanger one or two more days. 🤣

*HUGZ*

A Belated Merry Christmas, and also Happy New Year!

All of the Christmas Short Story Event Submissions Are all live so get busy reading!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all of the authors that submitted their works!

These are the submitted works:

• "Christmas with Charlie ~ 2021" from Christmas with Charlie 2017-2021 by Zarek Dragon 
• "Chapter One " from Jonah and Timmy's Trip To The North Pole - JTF-C & TS by Jonah Timoty Campbell-Forte & Timmy Short 
• "Christmas at Denny's On [Name Your Planet] - JP" from Christmas at Denny's On [Name Your Planet] ~ JP by Jeff P. 
• "Christmas at Dennys 2021 - AC" from Christmas at Dennys 2021 - AC by ACFan 
• "Arthur Dent's Christmas" from Arthur Dent's Christmas by Jules Porter 

Have a Wonderful New Year,