Paperback Radio

July 17, 2026 "I'm thinking about Theseus alone in the Labyrinth. Asserting kinship. That's what I'm doing now..."The team has finally found the treasure, but is it worth it's weight in blood?Vibe: Superhero v Supervillain, Action Adventure, Crime----This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...----SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACKThe cost of a coffee buys:*direct links to the podcast,*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,* our weekly feature on writing.Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]

July 3, 2026 " In another life, I might have swooned to see the pink light of dawn play on his broad shoulders and his bare chest, but after a night of entertaining a monster... I was unimpressed."All is not well in paradise as the fruit trees die, the fishermen disappear, and the island appears to be washing away at an alarming rate. Hunaisa sent outside her village for punching the chief’s nephew, Katango, has found a mermaid in the bathing pool. Battling their initial instincts to attack each other, the two girls come to realize somewhere beneath the waves something is hungry. Originally published by Knight's Press in their anthology "Mermaids!"

June 19, 2026 "All is forgiven of the beautiful. And that's why I'm a princess. I mean a queen. I mean Empress! I mean Goddess. I mean GOD."
 
As Wind-Up tries to sneak inside a death trap, his protege, Basilea the psychic powerhouse, holds a bank - and maybe the world - hostage.
Vibe: Superhero v Supervillain, Action Adventure, Crime
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This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).
 
 
So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...
 
 
 
 
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SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACK
The cost of a coffee buys:
*direct links to the podcast,
*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,
*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,
* our weekly feature on writing.
 
 
Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.
 
 
Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]

June 5, 2026 "I won’t go back. I’ll live forever in the wilderness. Find a cave in the shallows and becomes a mean-spirited magic woman... When the stupid handsome boys glimpse me from across the waves, they’ll swim out to me and be dashed against the rocks and drown."In the island village of Agana Springs disaster is brewing. Fruit trees rotting, the shore line changing, and people vanishing out at sea. The villagers blame the mermaids. The mermaids blame the villagers… but some thing more sinister might be lurking in the water.Originally published by Knight's Press in their anthology "Mermaidens!"Vibe: Island life, Fantasy, Mythic
----This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...----SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACKThe cost of a coffee buys:*direct links to the podcast,*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,* our weekly feature on writing.Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]

For this Fifth Friday, a new host discusses the original Wuthering Heights. Where did the romance come from?Rodger Jackson introduces Adapation Station, an artistic, philisophical, intellectual examination of the nature of adaptations. For example, how does a story about a mad man destroying his adopted family become synomymous with great romance? 

May 15, 2026 "Can those clockwork hippopotamuses bite a man in half?"
Betrayal is stealing from psychopaths who didn't kill you. Wind-up reminisces about a close encounter with the arch-criminal Grinning Skull. And on the eve of the Heist a do-gooder appears... demanding pay.
Vibe: Superhero v Supervillain, Action Adventure, Crime
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This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).
 
 
So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...
 
 
 
 
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SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACK
The cost of a coffee buys:
*direct links to the podcast,
*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,
*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,
* our weekly feature on writing.
 
 
Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.
 
 
Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]
 

May 1, 2026 "Audience, please standby! My assistant is working at incredible speeds to reenter us into all realties and forms of existance after that little. hiccup. She's so clever putting all those times and places back into their proper order... what knocked them out of order?""Santa... Bridger.. Exist in so many dimensions..."Listen here for the weird finale of Bridger Duc Hahn's journey to the North PoleVibe: Cozy Cosmic Horror, weird stories, Lovecraftian Comedy----This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...----SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACKThe cost of a coffee buys:*direct links to the podcast,*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,* our weekly feature on writing.Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]

April 17 th, 2026 - "Dantes' Nursery: I understood if it was called that because you were going to Hell... or because of the man-eating flowers."
 
What's a crime without a crew? Wind-Up destroys jail cells, dodges alien gangsters, and meets old demonic friends in his quest for the perfect team. But he'll need more... and his past could break more than just his heart.
 
Vibe: Superhero v Supervillain, Action Adventure, Crime
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This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).
 
 
So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...
 
 
 
 
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SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACK
The cost of a coffee buys:
*direct links to the podcast,
*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,
*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,
* our weekly feature on writing.
 
 
Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.
 
 
Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]

April 3, 2026 "We're in a Temporal Distortion, Abby. Did you notice? It's been a month!"Part two of Bridger Duc Hahn's stange journey to... the North Pole?Part two of Bridger Duc Hahn's stange journey to... the North Pole?Vibe: Cozy Cosmic Horror, weird stories, Lovecraftian Comedy----This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...----SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACKThe cost of a coffee buys:*direct links to the podcast,*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,* our weekly feature on writing.Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]

March 20th, 2026 - "We drill, adjust, set, and... click! Oh no. Look. An explosion... "What's a crime without a crew? Wind-Up destroys jail cells, dodges alien gangsters, and meets old demonic friends in his quest for the perfect team. But he'll need more... and his past could break more than just his heart.Vibe: Superhero v Supervillain, Action Adventure, Crime ----
This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video).
 
 
So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 1950's bomb shelter. Relaxin' to bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. You'll be delighted, spooked, and always entertained. Paperback Radio! The only stories you'll ever need again...
 
 
 
 
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SUPPORT US ON SUBSTACK
The cost of a coffee buys:
*direct links to the podcast,
*cool behind-the-scenes stuff,
*access to Lane's plays and L.J. short stories,
* our weekly feature on writing.
 
 
Your support goes towards: new recording equipment, full-cast productions, original music, original artwork, filming, and live shows.
 
 
Follow us on Substack: [https://paperbackproductions.substack.com/]