Typically, between issues, I take a little time off from this Patreon. It lets me write out all of my ideas and prep for the next issue, especially in the event of an issue-ending vote (like #17).I paused billing for January to do this, but I've noticed that for some reason it did not pause right away. That means that it looks like, from what I can see, is that some people were charged $2 for January, and some people were not. I have no way to identify who without manually going through each Patron one by one.I am not prepared to start Issue #18 yet, and I have no pages for this month. However some Patrons paid for content. So here is my proposal:Some time ago I began outlining (and writing) a standalone story set in the Starcaster universe. I didn't get super far, and honestly I don't know if I'll ever take it all the way. Maybe I will, who knows. I like the concept, I'm just notoriously short on time.But I do have a chapter of it, in a rather rough, unedited, unpolished state that I would normally never release, but... I'm going to give it to you as content for January. Consider it a look at a maybe-someday-will-be project. I don't get a lot of time to write like this, so maybe it sucks, but you can let me know. Or you can let me know if you like it, too, and maybe that gives me the push to work on it some more.Either way, I apologize for whatever happened that resulted in Patreon not pausing correctly this month. I have February paused as well, so Patreon will be keeping an eye on it to make sure it works this time.PDF attached to this post.