Lane von Herzen: Emails to the OIG Hotline on February 18, 2026

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.

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Emails to the OIG Hotline on February 18, 2026

OIG Hotline, please see the following emails sent to your attention today, February 18, 2026:

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Signed Testaments, February 18, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 2:32 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: LM Video, sent at 4:15 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Thank you for your ... ; sent at 6:05 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Information, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 6:10 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update and Documentation of Lane MacWilliams' Wifi Access, February 18, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:22 PM Pacific time.