Before we get started today, a huge, huge thank you to all of our patrons and supporters of the podcast for the month of April 2020.

Their support was unwavering, even if I wasn't a hundred percent consistent.

I thank each and every patron, but especially Angie, Ashley, Winchie, Morgan, and Jennifer.

We are all so grateful to have you. Thank you for sponsoring and supporting the podcast. We appreciate you. Thank you to all our

supporters. Now, on with the show. Well, hello there. Did you miss me? I missed you to. It's the

Nightly Pleasures podcast, episode number 313.

I am your host and author of one of the pieces you're about to hear today, The Grey Knight.

How you doing out there?

World's getting weird, and I'm trying my best to remember that I'm a very, very lucky man.

That the world has been very good to me, that my fans have been amazing.

And that even though everything's upended right now, totally up in the air,

that I still have control over what I do, how I feel, in large, large stretches.

And that's what I've been focusing on. I apologize that my productivity for April was a little shaky. I do, but on the

other hand, I'm giving the same patience to everybody else, and your comments have made it very

clear that you're giving it to me. Thank you so much for that. Well, on a personal note,

because you guys like little updates about that, I have to say,

even though everything is scary and my work hasn't been coming out as regular as I would like,

April wasn't a bad month for me, and it was a banner month for Mrs. Kitty. The new place

was very cold in the winter.

It was the coldest winter on record for many, many years for the whole 21st century and then some.

So that took some adjustment with the old house.

But these houses are built to resist heat, and this house was built long before air conditioning, and the air conditioning

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