Paperback Radio
Paperback Radio unveils bi-monthly stories from an eclectic array of genres. Two award-winning creatives invite you to indulge in their strange fiction. L.J. Longo (author) and Lane McLeod Jackson (playwright and director) love audio drama, so we decided to make some. We come out of our shells on the odd weeks of each month, hopefully to your delight and probably to God’s scorn. We hope you are sometimes delighted, sometimes spooked, but always entertained by the stories of Paperback Radio!
Episodes
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 genr...
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 mer...
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 ---- This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video). So Imagine. sittin' ...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 vil...
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 ---- This is an AUDIO-ONLY presentation (no video). So Imagine. sittin' around the rad...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 Pole Vibe: Cozy Cosmi...
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, Cr...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 st...
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). ...March 6, 2026 "Here at the station there’s a trifling amount of money riding on this moment. Representatives of the Heavenly Host, mostly in HR, are betting on cosmic leniency. The guys over in finance, mostly demons, predict total violence. Ninety-three percent of them have bets that Bridger Duc Hahn has already killed his mother. Five percent of them think he might eat her!" Friends, welcome back to our installment on Madn...
February 20th, 2026 - "Wouldn't you like enough cash to retire?" "Depends, see? What kind post-work life can we expect? The Maldives? Or working in a gas station like you." "Palm trees and cool breezes. I guarantee." After a corrupt super-hero beats Wind-Up to a pulp, the retired super villain and toy-maker extraordinaire decides there is no more time to waste. Money and villains. He needs both NOW in order to survive in this exc...
February 4, 2026 - "I do hate these scenes. Solving people’s destinies is such a… personal and messy business."
In this cozy fantasy, a witch cursed to wander until she can change the lives of 78 people in one year falls in love with the uptight steward, who happens to be one of her ... clients. Vibe: Cozy fantasy, romance, cute ---- This is an AUDIO ONLY presentation (no video). So Imagine. sittin' around the rad...January 30th, 2026 - "Welcome to The Inspiration Chop Shop, where we take apart our favorite films, books, and anything else we darn-well like—and steal every useful bit for our own creative malfeasance."
Lane and L.J. chat (or try to) about the newest segment of Paperback Radio: Plagiarize: The Inspiration Chop Shop! In this episode, we'll look at Sorry, Wrong Number the great radio drama by Lucille Fletcher, and discuss wh...
Jan 16 th, 2025 - "Bad guys don't get the breaks, Wind-Up. You might have fooled the papers, but I remember them toys shot to kill. Did you do your time? No. Then pay for the privilege of freedom." Wind-Up, a retired super villain and toy-maker extraodinaire has escaped the clutches of Synergy... temporarily. Now he's got limited time to assemble a crack team of minions, henchemen, and goons. He's on the clock, but that's the way ...
Jan 2nd, 2026 "Xuanlu Dao had never appeared fragile to her. Not until her hands cradled her mother’s paper-thin skin and she saw the bloom of blood under her robes, the indent in her chest." When XuanLu's heart exploded at the dinner table, her daughter, Laiyan Dao vows veangance. Powerful warrior's don't perish over soup, so someone must have murdered her. Fprtunately a local tourist who happens to be a traveling warrior/i...
Dec 19 th, 2025 - "For some reason the bullet didn't seem to hurt the 30 foot monster." Wind-Up, a retired minor criminal mastermind, has been kidnapped by a world spanning Supervillian. While imprisoned in a five star gothic blimp of fantastic proportions our intrepid villian watches a titantic battle. Two headed demonic monsters, super heroes, cyborgs, and epic chaos battle in the skies. But what will the survivors want from poo...
December 5 th, 2025 - "Near Thanksgiving, I was in the freezer, fetching the mac-n-cheese and the turkey chunks, uh, I lost my soul."
Three microfictions by L.J. Longo capturing the strange and monstrous events of everyday life during the holiday Season Vibe: Holidays, Horror, Surreal, Comedy ---- This is an AUDIO ONLY presentation (no video). So Imagine. sittin' around the radio in your 19...November 21st, 2025 - "This too well-dressed spiritualist is accompanied by temptation. A woman- or at least a hormone-inspired vision of one. The smile looks almost real. It's embarrassing seeing her after all these years. She was never my best work."
A former supervillian, now a toy maker, is chased for one final job. Vibe: Superhero v Supervillain, Action Adventure, Crime ---- This is an AUDIO ONLY pr...November 7th, 2025 - "Is Josh in that hole?" "Of course not. I didn't kill him." Three years after the body finished decaying, Didi thinks she can escape her debt. But Amanda's watching, and even the ends of the Earth aren't far enough. Especially, when it's time to pay up. Vibe: Psychological Thriller, Suspence, True Crime... Adjacent
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