Hello, and thank you so much for joining us once again. It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast. I am your host and the author of the piece you're about to hear today at The Great Night. But you can call me just Jack, if that's all too much to you. So, how are you? Things have been getting pretty interesting around here lately. I am slowly but surely coming back to life,

getting excited for my little bundles of video games that appear for really cheap. I buy a bunch of

video games for a dollar per every month, part of a big bundle. And, you know, I was just kind of

going through the motions with that, but it's been so exciting the last two bundles, and I'm looking forward to the next one already, moving through my games.

Isn't that a silly thing?

But it's true.

It's a sign that I'm coming back.

I am not only cooking stuff that I know, but I'm looking up new recipes, getting new equipment again.

Slowly but surely, the gray night returns to life. He is apologizing, as always, for his

gentle nature. He doesn't feel a part of this world. Sometimes I just don't. And whenever I'm

away, I feel a lot better when I come back. You have all been extremely,

extremely welcoming. Thank you. It means so much. Let's see. You wanted some other details.

One anonymous person asked on the Tumblr blog, that's gray, not erotica.tumbler.com. Are you writing anything? I've been away for a long time. Are you writing anything that's not porn? Yeah, I am, but I never know when to show you guys or not. I am, in fact, right now. I finished up a screenplay, but it wasn't strong enough, so I'm doing something called shelving it, where it gets old, and then I can see the flaws and maybe fix it better. So I did that over the last couple of months. Literally over the last three, four months, I finished that screenplay. And now I'm writing a little bit of a just a crime story. It's a novel. I don't really plan on... I don't even know what I'm gonna do with it.

But it's a story I can't let go. It's about murder and a big sack of money.

And a nerd who uses science to defeat a death squad, like a literal actual death squad from South America.

If that sounds fun, I'm writing it, and it's pretty entertaining.

It helps everything go away.

I can tell that you guys are all looking forward to fall and winter, am I?

Yes, yes I am.

The heat wave has been tremendous out here.

You know, I'm kind of used to it, and then I was an indoor kid because of the COVID

situation, so it really wasn't that bad an indoor kid because of the COVID situation,

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