Midnight Pals: Return

King: boy those Epstein emails
King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate
Neil Gaiman: hello everyone
Gaiman: i'm back
Barker: oh boy
Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

Neil Gaiman: it's me neil gaiman, imagineer and dreamweaver
Gaiman: have you ever considered
Gaiman: the incredible power of story?
Gaiman: but perhaps even more powerful are the stories that we don't tell
Gaiman: anyway here's my NDA

Neil Gaiman: hello imaginkateers
Gaiman: i am back, after two years wandering the infinite mind plane of the dreamscape
Gaiman: like a tulpa given form by the collective brainwave of humanity, i return to the physical reality
Gaiman: so anyway whats up
Gaiman: what did i miss

Gaiman: what has happened during my uneventful absence
Poe:
King:
Barker:
Koontz:
Lovecraft:
Poe: uh
Barker: hold on there edgar i'll take this one

Barker: so you might have heard
Barker: new Epstein emails been dropping
Gaiman: oh?
Barker: yeah
Barker: whole lotta emails
Barker: LOTTA emails
Barker: and now you're here

Gaiman: what a strange coincidence
Barker: yeah, weird that
Barker: real weird
Barker: so uh is there something you wanna say
Gaiman: yes!
Gaiman: i have a new book

Gaiman: were you not bereft in your long year without a neil gaiman imaginetainment?
Gaiman: that's my word for something that's both imaginative and entertaining
Gaiman: because I've returned with a new imagintainment
Gaiman: to wit
Gaiman: what if queen victoria was goth?
Gaiman: riddle me that, fellow óneironauts

Gaiman: but don't worry about the allegations
Gaiman: this substack will explain everything
Gaiman: but have you considered
Gaiman: that i'm minor-coded and literally autistic

King: of all the authors i thought would be accused of sex crimes, i never suspected neil gaiman
Poe: who did you suspect?
King: well if i'm being honest
King: i think i would have suspected
Poe: piers Anthony
King: yeah, piers Anthony
Piers Anthony: [huffing a pair of panties] wut?

Anthony: me? why's everyone always picking on me?
King:
Poe:
Lovecraft:
Koontz:
Barker:
Poe: you have um a little something on your face there, piers
Anthony: