Lane von Herzen: Important Emails for the OIG Hotline, February 20, 2025, Evening

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Important Emails for the OIG Hotline, February 20, 2025, Evening

OIG Hotline, please see emails sent directly to your Office from lanemacwilliams@gmail.com and an alternate email address at 7:09 PM and 8:32 PM respectively on February 20, 2025.

The latter email bears a subject heading of ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Current Status.

The former email bears a subject heading, here redacted, of ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Threats of xxxx xxxxxxxxx at The Hamilton.

I am not feeling particularly clear-headed at the moment, and it seems that I may have suffered exposure to a drug or neurotoxin over dinner, during which I had no alcohol whatsoever. I am experiencing dizziness and difficulty typing at the current time.

Thank you for allowing me to express these concerns.

Most sincerely,