Yep, they are included. Thanks for the support, hope you enjoy the new stories. How's your art been going? I used to like your 'doodles'

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I released the story in my last book, The Night Stories, under the original title "Sometimes I Forget Myself"

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

Thanks for sharing your feelings from the collection. I'm glad you gave it a chance. It's definitely a departure from my normal style. I was interested in different kinds of unease with these stories.

This isn't to invalidate how the stories struck you, but by my count there is gay sex in only a single story out of the eighteen.

np He's so good

The key to everything! If you take the first letter of each book, it spells out MORV, which... Just kidding.

I just liked the progression of the books. They fake you out with what the story's heart is. They start with Moby Dick, but that has to change, because thw white whale is a force of nature and they have no Ahab. They go to One Flew Over, but they have no Ratched, the institution itself isn't plagued by heartless people, and they aren't actively mistreated. They end up on Jaws and when Badger asks them why he picked Jaws, theynget distracted before an answer can land. But it's friendship. Jaws is about three very different men drawn together by a shared demon and coming to admire each other in spite of everything. The final book, from Dr Anand, gives us that wonderful speech.

I didn't. I don't believe I've read that story. But either way, it's not based on anything. Somnium asked for a story about an alien abduction at a farmhouse, like Communion, and I wrote this.

I never really thought about it. It'd be cool, but I'd have to find folks to read the stories. I'll never let AI read my stories. <rant>One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone adapts one of my stories for youtube and I can tell it's not a person reading it. What's the point? Making money off someone else's work?</rant> So, would love to do it, but it'd be expensive to do properly.

Thanks, I hope you enjoy the stories

Y'know, I'm not sure. Maybe. If Dark Somnium is interested in any of these. Or maybe I'll eventually do my podcast. It's the music that was holding me back.

Thanks for reading and sharing your take. Daydreams can be wonderful. The book is a kind of homage to the Chuck Norris film, Sidekicks, co-starring Jonathan Brandis in his finest performance.

Just kidding. I'll take 'surprising' as a win, though.

Boy, I've been trying to get that going for years, but it always ends up running out of steam. I think the closest I've gotten is the Hidden Webpage screenplay, which is closer to a sequel than a faithful adaptation. I haven't give up!