Maybe you've noticed that lately I've been writing like a bat out of Hell. I've discovered a method that really works for me. Specifically I've found that I get a lot more motivation out of someone wishing for something than asking for something. It doesn't take a whole lot: all someone has to do is deliver me a message that says - at least somewhere on the text, with as much preamble or postscript - "I wish -" followed by the kind of story they want to read or the emotion they want to feel. I wish to feel beautiful. I wish to see venice. So on.

And there's a give-and-take to it. The more personal, intimate, vulnerable, and true to the self the wish is, the more dearly I want to grant it. The easier it is to write.

The catch is that I have to write the stories over DMs, a few hundred words at a time. Those little missives to the hopeful wisher flow much more readily than the big chunky novellas. But they grow *in* to the big chunky novellas over enough time. Over the last few weeks I've written Super Graphic Semi Modern Girls, Aroma, and Moonstone and the Dream of France using this method.

While this time of peace and stability in my life lasts, I'd like to extend my talents to as many people as possible. So: here it is. If you want a story in the style you've seen from me recently, with a similar quality - you must wish it. Send me a note here, or find me on discord at HTBlack. Enclose your wish in your opening message and prepare to answer several followup questions. The only wishes I will not grant are the banal: tedious, simplistic, porno you could write your own self. I want to satisfy lavish, baroque, ostentatious, specific, intimate, personal, cultural, operatic, autobiographical, transcendentally emotional fantasies. The more of your soul you leave in your message to me, the more of my soul I will leave in my messages to you.

This journal will remain up while the magic still pulses in me.

Marketers, police, and liberal economists need not apply.