This is perhaps the most unfinished of my current unfinished tales -- much to my regret, since the entire story was very carefully mapped out and planned in exacting detail before I hit the block that stopped it.  In this case, I think the block was a very strange one:  the series itself.  I thoroughly enjoyed Babylon 5, up until its last season.  After all the effort that was put into wrapping up the major plotlines in anticipation of the series ending with the end of season four, season five came across to me as disappointingly anti-climactic.  Not that there weren't some excellent episodes -- especially in the matter of Londo and the fate of Centauri Prime -- but some major parts of the season, especially the bit with Byron and the "Psi-Goths" simply failed to hold my interest.  Frankly, I didn't care what happened to them; the more interesting portion of the telepath issue was the coming war, which JMS was reportedly holding aside in anticipation of a theatrical movie.  Hearing this, I felt quite cheated; as a loyal viewer who had been chasing the show from station to station and timeslot to timeslot, it infuriated me to hear that "the good stuff" was being saved for a big-screen movie that five years later has yet to materialize.  I felt that we were being fed a lot of old and stale leftovers, because they wanted to squeeze out that final season after they had already done just about everything to tie up all the plots of major interest.  I continued to watch, and I certainly enjoyed some of the fifth season episodes greatly, but I felt ripped off and betrayed.  I would rather have had no fifth season at all than a lot of what we were given.   I know some other fans feel differently, that's their right, but as a writer, I could not envision doing such a thing to my loyal readers.  I would rather give up my vision of a five-year story arc and go on to give them something new and more fulfilling than pull this kind of a stunt.

In any case, when this happened, my interest in finishing Appearances died.  I have hopes that someday, it'll wake up again, but at the moment, it's stuck in limbo.